THE RAPIST the rapist is counting his sentences while his victim sits sketching his face she tries to forget but his eyes will not let her let go of his lingering trace and the wise woman sleeps by the river and she dreams she's the riverbird diving for fish and the lightning's along the horizon and the fool he sits drinking his poison and the judge he is losing his reason and the rapist re-lives and believes his belief that he fulfils her subconscious wish the woman is washing her body she is beating a path to the well she douches and showers each two or three hours but she can't get away from his smell and the old man makes love to his daughter the volcano breaks crust with its crater and the first lights of home have been sighted again but the jury is getting excited and the rapist just wants to repeat it again and the all masculine panel is a no exit tunnel and she feels violated again and again now the lady is angry with penises the lady is angry with me she burns thru my actions she lives my destruction as i temper myself till i'm free and the cat it has captured the hummingbird and the snake it has entered the tower and the rapist he dreams he is back at the scene in his moment of dangerous power the boy he makes love to his mother and his mother turns into a spider the spider stings smack as he blows off his stack and his line is plugged into the meter and the young girl she weeps in the garden and the flowers are broken and crushed the wise women are watching and waiting for the male world to crash as it must