Imagine a World Without Rape

The train stops
A faint screech
Echoes down the tube
Four bodies black pants
white shirts
Black letters:

"Imagine a
World
Without
Rape"

Upright subtle motion
They sway without sound
Pushed by the quiet whoosh of air
Disturbed by passersby
Imagining instead a world
Of cheap toys made in China
And crock-pot dinners
Cooking on lexan countertops

"Imagine a
World
Without
Rape"

Lost in pornographic reveries
Fucked by the system
As in a dream the flowing crowd
Parts, stumbles over the message bearers
And recombines on the far side
At the bottom of the stairs

"Imagine a
World
Without
Rape"

It is too much to ask
To imagine a

World without rape
Without war
Without oil
Without cars
Without tv
Without drugs
Without garbage and McDonalds

~~~

The moving stairs slowly lift the crowd upward
Staring ahead

The stench of rotting conscience
Trails the departing train

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Copyright 2007 by E. Bond Francisco

Edited 10/20/26