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[sid] => 178025
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => Odds
[time] => 2014-03-25 22:44:33
[hometext] => a poem on rape culture
[bodytext] => I have never been to the beach never waded into the ocean and watched the sun set over glistening waves but I know that the odds of a shark attack is 1 in 11.5 million and that 129 million people a year go to South California beaches alone I have never wandered through a forest I have never hiked down a worn path picking wildflowers I couldn’t name if you paid me but I know the odds of a bear attack is 1 in 1.9 million and that approximately 56 million people visit Yellow Stone National Park each year I have never been to Africa I have never walked down a dirt road in blinding heat and a mud cloth dress to a marketplace of beads and headscarves but I know 550-700 people are attacked by lions each year and that 1.033 billion people live in Africa as of 2011 I have gone to a bar I have dressed up in heels and a miniskirt and smiled at strangers for no other reason than to smile and I know the odds of being raped is 1 in 4 and that three girls sat around me as an old man stood close and told me my dress was beautiful I have walked down a street and saw three other women on the sidewalk when a car honked at my hunched form clutching groceries There were two female cashiers and a female manager when a customer told me he was looking for a girlfriend without once dragging his eyes up to meet mine I have been told that I look like I am asking for it that my body issues an invitation my mouth will never say that my clothing has given me a label and that label is “tease” I have been told that I flaunt myself in front of men like a piece of meat in front of a dog but I guess dogs can be trained better because the odds of one biting me is 1 in 131,890 I have never been attacked by a dog but I have had a stranger grab my ass in a crowded mall and look shocked when I beat him I have had my sister ask me what I was wearing, joking that I had an ass so someone was bound to grab it I have made it 21 years without someone trying to force themself inside of me to nestle under my skin in a way I cannot cut out 21 years of deadbolts and pocketknives and “never go out at night” So I will go to the beach and let salt water sting sunburned calves I will wander the forest coated in insect repellant and clutching a pamphlet of poisonous plants I will go to Africa and pack myself into a crowded safari van with a dozen other tourists with cameras I will buy myself a dog and love it until my luck runs out until the numbers have hunted me down and I become the 1 in 4 that shielded the other women around me The odds of successfully committing suicide is 1 in 25 I like those odds [comments] => 2 [counter] => 134 [topic] => 21 [informant] => KismetsPoet [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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