RAPE CULTURE

“I don’t like being accused

Of being that type of guy”

He said

Ignoring that

We have all been that type of guy

At some time in life

Before someone told us

Don’t pull hair

Don’t push a girl

If you like her

Or if you don’t

Be a gentleman

Then be a gentle man

“These chicks

Just like attacking guys”

He said

Ignorant

Of fearful nightwalks

Acid attack nightmares

The terrible question

“What were you wearing?”

As if clothes were an invitation

To commit any crime

Safe and secure

He grinned

I stood up

And left him

With his rape culture

ASIAN HISTORY

Asia has so much history

Japan forgets to put it in her textbook

South Korea will never leave a second out

While China is always making her own

And South Korea writes alternate history

Better than fiction

Asia has so many fireworks

Japan exhausted hers a long time ago

South Korea borrows her uncle’s sparkler

China keeps on stockpiling bottle rockets

And North Korea aims hers at her neighbor’s walls

Better than family

GLOBALIZATION

The world isn’t flat

It is flattened

Spun out, sped up

Intensified and concentrated

Words race across the globe

Before they are spoken

What’s ordered today

Gets here yesterday

We are becoming

A single body

With electric nerves

Connecting dumb tissue

Eyes that can’t see the self

Hands that know not what the head does

A head that thinks it commands all

While cancers bloom

In forgotten flesh