Strangely (human)
Strangely,
the man who raped her
also encouraged her
to pleasure herself.
“I want it to hurt,” he said,
but then slack-jawed, teeth-
gritted, fitted her hand
to her crotch so she could maybe
make it
not hurt.
These are just a couple of ways
shame
plays us.
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Draftish sort of poem, not auto-biographical, for Shay’s (Fireblossom’s) prompt on Real Toads to write something based on the work of Gerda Wegener. An image of Gerda’s above.
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