Friday, November 2, 2018

day SIX HUNDRED and FITY TWO

Wicked

News feeds hemorrhage headlines
Of sexual assault victims’ testimony.
Pompous old white men protect their own,
Circle wagons around the self-entitled offender.
Like the wicked witch, a Republican woman
Tut-tuts over reports of attempted rape,
Drunken high school parties,
Unwanted groping.
“Boys will be boys!” She proclaims.

I wonder if a lifetime of abuse
Has damaged her brain,
Left her confused about power,
humiliation and forced submission,
Rewired her thinking to excuse
And encourage more generations
Of internalized misogynistic oppression.


-- Jennifer Lagier


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