Patricia Lockwood, "Rape Joke":
Rape Joke
The rape joke is that you were 19 years old.
The rape joke is that he was your boyfriend.
The rape joke it wore a goatee. A goatee.
Imagine the rape joke looking in the mirror, perfectly reflecting back itself, and grooming itself to look more like a rape joke. “Ahhhh,” it thinks. “Yes. A goatee.”
No offense.
The rape joke is that he was seven years older. The rape joke is that you had known him for years, since you were too young to be interesting to him. You liked that use of the word interesting, as if you were a piece of knowledge that someone could be desperate to acquire, to assimilate, and to spit back out in different form through his goateed mouth.
Then suddenly you were older, but not very old at all.
The rape joke is that you had been drinking wine coolers....
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The rape joke is that love wasn't married with them. Miss Different
The rape joke that there was no jail in my defence, Miss Geography
The rape joke that saying hello was not in my freedom, Miss Ability
The rape joke is that you were always available by mail, Miss Examination
The rape joke is that you paid me all summer not to come, Miss Information
The rape joke that it was never enough, Miss Sucker Cup
The rape joke that I was the only one to blame, Miss Just Is
And thats how your call lost a world of many years without any understanding or stand.
But silent and softly.....stupidity by costumers was joked and by neighbours was raped by all others accountable
