Pity The Fool

Pity The Fool

go on

pity the fool

the poet at night

writing character

sketches of battered

women

inexplicable demons

                rise

profess to be ordinary

& soil summer dresses

go on

pity the fool

the night poet

who breaks

down

when tears come

pushing poems

to their long bitter

limits

piecing the sweet

dreams of lost women

together

with paper-clips

go on

pity the fool

                who keenly

hauls the trash

                out

alerts the reader

combats violence

                fights

until anyone bothers

                to notice

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The news of late has me fired up about important things such as the many ways women are harmed, both by men and the media. Frankly, I'm fed up. I am tired of misogyny, tired of 'locker room talk', tired of abuse, body-shaming, slut-shaming, tired of my sisters of the world not being heard when she's been hurt. Pity the fools. The abusers, the sexist dregs of society. There's a special place in hell for you. 

In propinquity,

Nic