Let's workshop this poem about the challenge of trusting men when, on top of their jungle urges, pop culture plays two main chords: hypersex and hyperviolence (spiked with sphincter-loosening drugs)
Beat it Up, Nigga—Catch a Charge
All the spit-in-my-mouth,
Perc-30-my-asshole, taunts of pop
hypnosis set aside—still, how
can she trust men when menthemselves, nursing prefire urges
too umbral to voice even
in locker rooms, trust no man:
saying, “What’d you expect,
going into his home alone?”
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)