A Little Like Rape
Submitted by Haggard & Halloo on June 24, 2009 – 9:57 am3 Comments
A Little Like Rape
by donal mahoney
This sylph came forward
from the second row
the second day of class
and asked if
I would edit her poem
so it would read
the way it should.
I told her straightaway
that even though
this was writing class
and I was the instructor,
I couldn’t edit her poem
and still have the poem be hers.
Editing her poem, I said,
would be a little like rape,
just painful in a different way
whether she understood that
yet or not.
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That is the stupidest simile I’ve ever come across. Given the choice of having my poem edited or getting raped, I think I’d go with the editing.
K, so I really like this. I hope this happened because moments in time, and communication, like this is so freaking real and important.
And truth rocks.
Oh yes. I hope this really happened because I love conversations and moments like this. And truth.