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