*A poem based on the recent rape case in Steubenville, Ohio.

Rape Culture lives in Ohio.

He is a 17-year old male.

He is Caucasian.

He is African American.

He wears his jersey

Like Francis wears his new papal crown,

Because football is his religion,

And being a man means

Going to parties to drink

And to once in a while

Rape a 16-year old girl (or two),

Depending on how intoxicated she is,

And take a picture of her naked,

And post it on Twitter,

And pick her up from the floor,

And carry her to another party,

Watch as a peer urinates on her unconscious body,

Watch as another one retweets his tweet.

Rape Culture slowly puts his fingers on the girl’s body

Watch how she doesn’t move, or scream, or show pain, or fight back

Watch how unconscious she is

Rape Culture is lucky Steubenville plays blind and deaf.

(Steubenville plays stupidville)

Rape Culture “had such promising futures”, CNN reported.

CNN reported they are registered sex offenders

But CNN did not report they chose to be.

CNN did not report what the victim will go through

CNN did not report the weight of the victim’s tears

Or her mother’s silent crying every night afterwards,

Or her father’s sense of shame just walking down the street

CNN simply did not

Report

Because it wasn’t the SuperBowl,

And unless he is making a touchdown before a crowd of millions,

America sits Rape Culture on the bench of

O b l I v I o n