{"id":114141,"date":"2026-06-24T13:20:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/?p=114141"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:21:56","slug":"a-comedic-rant-poem-by-world-ruler-sherno-nancy-i-will-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trottbaileyfamily.com\/1drop\/a-comedic-rant-poem-by-world-ruler-sherno-nancy-i-will-not\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comedic Rant Poem by World Ruler SherNo Nancy, I Will Not"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n.no-nancy-poem{\n  --ink:#1d1916;\n  --muted:#665d53;\n  --cream:#f5eee2;\n  --paper:#fffaf2;\n  --white:#ffffff;\n  --forest:#173126;\n  --forest-soft:#294b39;\n  --clay:#8d432f;\n  --clay-dark:#672d20;\n  --gold:#bd8a35;\n  --gold-soft:#f3dca7;\n  --rose:#ead8d0;\n  --line:rgba(29,25,22,.13);\n  --shadow:0 18px 52px rgba(48,35,20,.12);\n\n  max-width:1050px;\n  margin:32px auto;\n  color:var(--ink);\n  font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\n  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Not<\/h1>\n\n      <p class=\"subtitle\">\n        A poem about the invisible committee that moves into a woman\u2019s head,\n        hands her a clipboard and starts policing how she mothers,\n        works, rests, believes, looks and lives.\n      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/header>\n\n  <section class=\"intro\">\n    <p>\n      Nancy is not necessarily one woman.\n      Nancy is respectability.\n      Nancy is church manners.\n      Nancy is career pressure.\n      Nancy is motherhood performance.\n      Nancy is the raised eyebrow,\n      the invisible audience\n      and every little voice asking:\n      <strong>\u201cBut what will people think?\u201d<\/strong>\n    <\/p>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza white\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Hair<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI will not comb my hair today.\n\nYou want to know why, Nancy?\n\nBecause I have three children,\nand the baby woke up\nevery hour,\non the hour,\nlast night.\n\nNot every other hour.\n\nEvery hour.\n\nLike he had an appointment.\n\nLike he was punching a clock.\n\nLike he worked the night shift\nand I was the building.\n\nSo no, Nancy,\nI will not comb my hair.\n\nMy scalp and I\nare no longer speaking.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza sage\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Laundry<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI will not do the laundry today.\n\nYou want to know why?\n\nBecause it does not matter\nwhat brand I buy,\nwhat soap I use,\nwhat temperature I choose,\nwhat prayer I whisper\nover the washing basin\u2014\n\nthe stains will not come out.\n\nThe stains have citizenship.\n\nThe stains have settled.\n\nThe stains have built homes.\n\nThe stains have enrolled their children in school.\n\nThe stains are not leaving, Nancy.\n\nSo no,\nI will not spend another afternoon\nscrubbing a shirt\nthat has already chosen its future.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza dark\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Church<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI will not come to church.\n\nYou want to know why, Nancy?\n\nBecause God is not there.\n\nHe is here.\n\nHe was here at three in the morning\nwhen I was holding a crying baby\nwith one eye open\nand one breast out.\n\nHe was here\nwhen there was one piece of bread left\nand somehow five people ate.\n\nHe was here\nwhen I wanted to scream\nbut washed another plate instead.\n\nHe was here\nwhen I sat on the edge of the bed\nand sighed.\n\nThe sigh was prayer.\n\nThe silence was prayer.\n\nI did not need to gather myself,\nclose my eyes,\nfind the right words,\nor make the moment look holy.\n\nI was there.\n\nGod was there.\n\nNothing was missing.\n\nSo no, Nancy,\nI will not put on a dress,\ndrag three children through a doorway,\nand arrive sweating\nso somebody can ask me\nwhy I look tired.\n\nGod already knows.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza rose\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Job<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI do not have a job.\n\nAnd no,\nI do not want one.\n\nYou want to know why?\n\nBecause I have three at home.\n\nThree supervisors.\n\nThree departments.\n\nThree ongoing emergencies.\n\nOne asks for food.\n\nOne cannot find her shoe.\n\nOne is crying\nbecause the other one looked at her.\n\nI manage meals,\ninjuries,\narguments,\nappointments,\nclothing,\nfeelings,\nsleep,\nlearning,\ncleaning,\nplanning,\nand a small person\nwho believes the floor is a food group.\n\nSo no, Nancy,\nI am not unemployed.\n\nI am overstaffed.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza clay\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Boss<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI do not care about the Boss.\n\nAt home,\nI am the Boss.\n\nI am Human Resources.\n\nI am Conflict Resolution.\n\nI am Food Services.\n\nI am Transport.\n\nI am Health and Safety.\n\nI am the Complaints Department.\n\nI am the Emergency Contact.\n\nI am upper management\nand unpaid labour\nat the exact same time.\n\nSo forgive me\nif I do not tremble\nbecause some man in an office\nsent an email marked urgent.\n\nNancy,\nI have seen a toddler\nhold his breath\nbecause I cut the banana wrong.\n\nI know pressure.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza white\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Reunion<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI will not be at the college reunion.\n\nYou want to know why?\n\nBecause I am not a sentimental fool.\n\nI do not need to stand in a room\nwith people I have not spoken to\nin fifteen years\nand pretend we survived something together\nbecause we once shared a hallway.\n\nI do not want to hear\nwho became a doctor,\nwho bought a house,\nwho moved abroad,\nwho \u201creally found herself,\u201d\nand who has a husband\nwho apparently enjoys taking photographs.\n\nGood for them.\n\nMay their lighting remain flattering.\n\nBut I will be at home, Nancy,\nwearing an old shirt,\neating something from a bowl,\nnot explaining myself to anybody.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza sage\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Listening Ear<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI do not need your listening ear.\n\nYou want to know why?\n\nBecause discretion lives here.\n\nI do not need to hand you\nmy private pain\nso you can carry it carefully\nfrom house to house.\n\nI do not need my struggle\nintroduced at dinner.\n\nI do not need my marriage\nturned into a prayer request.\n\nI do not need my exhaustion\nbecoming community news.\n\nYou say,\n\u201cYou can tell me anything.\u201d\n\nNo, Nancy.\n\nThat is exactly what frightens me.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza dark\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The House<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI will not smile\nbecause somebody is looking.\n\nI will not sit up straight\nbecause a woman should have posture.\n\nI will not clean the house\nbefore the visitor arrives\nso the visitor can believe\nnobody lives here.\n\nI will not apologize\nfor the toys,\nthe cups,\nthe noise,\nthe crumbs,\nthe baby,\nthe children,\nthe husband,\nthe life.\n\nThe house looks lived in\nbecause we are alive.\n\nCall the authorities.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza rose\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Bread Run<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI will not make myself presentable\nto buy bread.\n\nThe bread does not care.\n\nThe shopkeeper will survive.\n\nThe street has seen worse.\n\nAnd if anybody is disturbed\nby my hair,\nmy slippers,\nor the fact that my shirt\nhas become familiar with my body\u2014\n\nthey may look away.\n\nNecks turn, Nancy.\n\nThat is why God gave us necks.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza clay\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Productive Day<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI will not be productive today.\n\nI will sit down.\n\nI will drink something\nwhile it is still hot.\n\nI will stare outside.\n\nI will take a picture of a leaf\nthat nobody asked for.\n\nI will take a picture of a cloud\nand develop no strategy around it.\n\nI will not post it.\n\nI will not brand it.\n\nI will not ask\nhow nature can support my income goals.\n\nI will look at the damn tree\nand let the tree be unemployed.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza white\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Gift<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI will not turn every talent\ninto money.\n\nI may cook well\nand never open a restaurant.\n\nI may write well\nand never build a course.\n\nI may take beautiful pictures\nand never sell a print.\n\nI may know something useful\nand keep my mouth shut.\n\nI may make something\nonly because I wanted it to exist.\n\nI may have a gift\nthat does not report for duty.\n\nImagine that, Nancy.\n\nA gift\nwith the day off.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza sage\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Rest<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy,\nI will not feel guilty\nbecause I am resting.\n\nI am tired.\n\nThat is the whole explanation.\n\nI will not call it recovery\nso it sounds productive.\n\nI will not say\nI am recharging\nso the working world believes\nI intend to return improved.\n\nI am lying down.\n\nNothing is charging.\n\nNothing is loading.\n\nThere will be no updated version.\n\nLeave me alone.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"stanza dark\">\n    <div class=\"label\">Who Nancy Really Is<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">And Nancy\u2014\n\nlet us finally tell the truth.\n\nYou are not one woman.\n\nYou are the committee.\n\nYou are the raised eyebrow.\n\nYou are the neighbour\nwho is not even outside\nbut somehow still watching.\n\nYou are the church lady in my head.\n\nThe teacher in my head.\n\nThe employer in my head.\n\nThe auntie in my head.\n\nThe woman I was taught to become\nstanding over the woman I actually am\nwith a clipboard.\n\nYou are every rule\nI swallowed so early\nI mistook it for my own voice.<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"refrain\">Comb your hair.\n\nClean the house.\n\nGet a job.\n\nGo to church.\n\nSmile.\n\nBe grateful.\n\nBe useful.\n\nBe pleasant.\n\nBe quiet.\n\nBe available.\n\nBe impressive.\n\nBe exhausted\u2014\n\nbut do not look exhausted.<\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"final\">\n    <div class=\"label\">The Refusal<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"verse\">No, Nancy.\n\nI will not.\n\nI will not police myself\non behalf of people\nwho are not even in the room.\n\nI will not spend my life\nperforming womanhood\nfor an invisible audience.\n\nI will not make motherhood\nlook tidy\nso the world can remain comfortable.\n\nI will not turn my exhaustion\ninto a personal failure.\n\nI will not keep asking\nwhether I am allowed\nto live my own life.\n\nNo, Nancy.\n\nI will not comb my hair today.\n\nI will not do the laundry.\n\nI will not come to church.\n\nI will not get a job\nto prove the three jobs at home are real.\n\nI will not worship the Boss.\n\nI will not attend the reunion.\n\nI will not hand you my secrets.\n\nI will not smile on command.\n\nI will not monetize the leaf.\n\nI will not apologize for resting.\n\nYou want to know why, Nancy?\n\nBecause I am grown.\n\nBecause I am tired.\n\nBecause I said no.\n\nBecause this is my house.\n\nBecause discretion lives here.\n\nBecause God is here.\n\nBecause my children are here.\n\nBecause my life is here.<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"final-line\">And because, Nancy\u2014\n\nyou do not live here.<\/div>\n\n    <div class=\"signature\">\n      Written by World Ruler Sher\n      for Trott Bailey Family Civilization\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Comedic Rant Poem by World Ruler Sher No Nancy, I Will Not A poem about the invisible committee that moves into a woman\u2019s head, hands her a clipboard and starts policing how she mothers, works, rests, believes, looks and lives. 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