Rape: The Male Crime
by Haki Madhubuti
there are mobs & strangers
in us
who scream of the women
wanted and
there are mobs & strangers
in us
who scream of the women
wanted and
will get
as if the women are ours for the
taking.
our mothers, sisters, wives and
daughters ceased to be the
women men want we think of them as
loving family music & soul bright wondermints.
they are not locker room talk
not the hunted lust or dirty
cunt burnin hoes.
bright wondermints are excluded by association as
blood & heart bone & memory
& we will destroy a rapist's knee caps,
& write early grave on his thoughts
to protect them.
it will do us large to recall
when the animal in us rises
that all women are someone's
mother, sister, wife or daughter
and are not fruit to be stolen when hungry.
a significant few of their
fathers, brothers, husbands, sons
and growing strangers
are willing to unleash harm on the earth
and spill blood in the eyes
of
maggots in running shoes
who do not know the sounds of birth
or respect the privacy of the human form.
as if the women are ours for the
taking.
our mothers, sisters, wives and
daughters ceased to be the
women men want we think of them as
loving family music & soul bright wondermints.
they are not locker room talk
not the hunted lust or dirty
cunt burnin hoes.
bright wondermints are excluded by association as
blood & heart bone & memory
& we will destroy a rapist's knee caps,
& write early grave on his thoughts
to protect them.
it will do us large to recall
when the animal in us rises
that all women are someone's
mother, sister, wife or daughter
and are not fruit to be stolen when hungry.
a significant few of their
fathers, brothers, husbands, sons
and growing strangers
are willing to unleash harm on the earth
and spill blood in the eyes
of
maggots in running shoes
who do not know the sounds of birth
or respect the privacy of the human form.
***
Haki R. Madhubuti, Founder & Publisher of Third World Press, former university Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Chicago State University and the Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor Emeritus at DePaul University.
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