Good morning and welcome to Saturday’s Sips of Wine from the grapevine.
This month, my magazine was so huge that not everything was able to be fitted in and in fact some things were accidentally left out. In an effort to make certain all my contributors are represented and their talented work is available to be enjoyed by all, I’m sharing this powerful poem by Butterfly Thomas here with you.
Thanks in advance for reading.
Threat
By Butterfly Thomas
February 19, 2021
So you gon be casual about it
Like the shit is cool?
Comfortable with talking to me in such a way…
“What you think I’ma rape you”
Why would you ask me something like that?
So we agree…
It’s a terrible
Horrible
No good
Very bad
Thing
And yet
Because your feelings hurt
Or your ego
Cause I didn’t do
Something you wanted me to
Go with you
Or let you come in
I’m appalled
At your audacity
Your capacity
To fix your face
Your mouth
To fix your lips
To ask me
So flippantly…
And I didn’t think so
But now
I don’t know
Cause that thought always floats in the hindbrain
Amorphous
That threat always has the potential
To surface
Peace,
Butterfly
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