#MeToo
The Rape of America’s Women, by the Men Who Claim to Love Us
The Seduction
When I was a wee lass, running beneath spacious
skies, flitting through amber waves of grain, you
Whispered seductively of liberty, even justice for all
Beckoned to the poor huddled masses, sea to shining sea
So proudly I hailed my faith in “our” flag
Hot dogs baseball apple pie and Chevrolet
All across my twilight’s last gleaming
You held up your false god before me
Claimed to love thy neighbor, all neighbors
Do unto others, love one another
Gasped in public when little girls got blown up
In church, cried salty tears when King was killed
Gave me final say over my own uterus
Told me to say no and all real men would listen
Smiled as you said we should all follow our dreams
Damn me for hoping, misinterpreting
The Rape
You stroked me you wooed me fooled me until
I got greedy dared to believe I could lead a country
You slapped me back hard, said you’d trump me
Rubbed your privilege against me
Grabbed me shamelessly by the pussy and
One man after the other you fucked me with your
Fake morals, crosses caught in the teeth of your zippers
Cocks hard and red with power and party, partisanship
Rammed your Franklin Grahams into every orifice
Enflamed and enraged by your failure to dominate
Filled me relentlessly with your misogyny
Unable to cum till my blood ran red and free
Laughing and leering at my broken body
Tripping over your daughters as you ascended society
Cleaning Up
You questioned my believability for
Not noticing the decor while you tore into my skin
Erasing the day from my memory banks, not hitting replay
Picking apart my clothing, my choices, my beverages
Forgetting my place, millennia of subservience
Righteously angry that I sullied your vaunted name
By bothering to mention such a trifling matter
You politicized my pain, your gain was all that mattered
And then as always you saved yourself through
Membership in the brotherhood of pale but erect penises
Country club scotch on the rocks, camaraderie on the back nine
Rape and politics make strange bedfellows but
At least they are faithful, supportive of your future
Integrity is so yesterday, democracy a mockery
Laughing and leering, adjudicating my broken body
Tripping over your daughters as you transcend society
