well-placed title, I really liked that.
a good poem, nice narrational tone & a very slight macabre tinge.
KS
On 06/03/07, Laura Heidy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Every Man
>
> Remember how when we were young, we walked
> outside the rapist's lair, back and forth, to
> and fro until at last our parents called
> us in and Mother said, "You're teasing fate"
> and Father said, "You're tempting man" but we
> were ten and curious and sex and rape
> were two small words we did not understand.
>
> But now that I've been raped by love, and you,
> My Friend, by marriage vows, we realize
> the face that hides inside a closed
> and shuttered house where fancy curtains can
> not keep a secret kept is someone's son
> and some one's spouse and that his name could some
> day be the whispered name of every man.
>
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