What’s your safe word?
Before you say the safe word
you agreed on months ago
What was it?
You practiced it a lot together
You were getting on the bus, for example
your feet on the stairs, your luggage already on the floor (packed for a long weekend)
She said it
You had to stop, grab the handle of the heavy motherfucker
and get off before the door closed
The passengers didn’t understand why you were laughing hysterically
repeating a word that was totally unrelated
You can’t forget such a powerful word
Why not say stop?
Short and simple
A farmer in Chile would understand it
or a shopkeeper in Burma
That’s the problem
So easy to say it means nothing
Stop it, your mother yelled at you nine times a day when you were young and playful
What did you do?
You’d better choose a safe word out of context
