Intruder Alert

A conference theatre, unfilled, a field;
green folding chairs, strewn open, a crop.

Some poor woman, older, robust, sexless to me,
sits, cross angled.

Her seat shifts, becomes a vice;
her fingers, trapped, raped, crushed.

Her shouts scorch, stark pain,
a boiling crescendo. People rush. Not me.

I am shock still,
stunned by lust, by shame.

I can't forgive me this.
I can't.



This poem was published in the Autumn 2K2 edition of Subverse.

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