“No Offense”

Poet and Twitter personality Patricia Lockwood has an intensely good (and just plain intense) poem up The Awl.

It’s called “Rape Joke,” and it starts like this:

The rape joke is that you were 19 years old.

The rape joke is that he was your boyfriend.

The rape joke it wore a goatee. A goatee.

Brace yourself and then read the whole thing here.

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