"On Dec. 6, for the 31st year in a row, Canada will pause and remember one of the most horrifying tragedies in our modern history, when a misogynist killer took the lives of 14 young women at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. He took their lives because they were women."
Elizabeth Renzetti, Globe and Mail. December 5, 2020.
All the Rage
There are two rooms
one with men writing charts
arguing over what is right and wrong
their voices rising over one another
coming through gaps in the window
where scribes wait patiently for the news
—it is their job to make sense of the noise
turn it into a narrative we can understand
and the other room where polished rocks
are inserted into charms for good luck
where no human voice can rise above
conveyors fed by thin hungry women
hoping the floor manager does not
take a fancy to their buttocks and demand
they follow him into the closet
where the bully gets to thrust his hard
into the lives of his victims
confident the victim will be blamed
until we stop buying these little charms
for those we love.
(Sleep With Me: Lullaby for an Anxious Planet. Ekstasis 2020.)
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