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Date Rape Actress | How to Be a Woman
Andrea Rogers
Date Rape Actress
“You’re just an empty cage, girl,
If you kill the bird”
– Tori Amos, “Crucify”
At sixteen, she felt it
when the man gave her
moonshine: that slowing
of blood, strange feeling
of floating out.
And so she became a bird,
buoyed, looking upon the body;
saw it groped, kissed,
discarded, propped against
a tree, mindless, poisoned.
The body, thawing, rocked
back and forth ’til morning, when,
the vomit drying on its …
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