The Wake

The mark of a virgin
Blush
Downward glance
Men would look greedily
Fingernails
Deep in palm

A former priest, John J. Geoghan, went on trial in Middlesex Superior Court this week on charges of molesting a 10-year-old boy in 1991. He has been accused of molesting more than 130 boys during the three decades he served in Boston-area parishes.

Love: noun
1. an intense feeling of tender affection and compassion
2. a passionate feeling of romantic desire and sexual attraction
verb
1. vti to feel tender affection for somebody, for example, a close relative or friend, or for something such as a place, an ideal, or an animal
2. vt to have sexual intercourse with somebody (dated)

7-year-old Erica Pratt was abducted on July 22 and tied up in a basement by her kidnapper; she chewed through the duct tape that covered her mouth, freed her hands and feet, and broke through a door to escape.

Long ago
we made love,
let our bodies mix,
our kisses bring passion.
Let the heat rise
when we came together
we were one
it was love.

A 12-year-old student at Eugene Butler Middle School said she was late for class [when] one boy raped her and three others forced her to perform oral sex [on them]. The attack happened about 3 p.m. Friday. Two of the boys are 12 years old, one is 13 and the other is 14.

Sex sells faster than anything
That debonair look
Tousled hair
Crimson lips
Bring men to shivers

The story was that she awoke in the middle of the night on Sept. 4, 1997, to find a knife at her throat and a man in her bed. The man raped her, she said, and because of her limited vision and a darkened bedroom, she could not identify her assailant.

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Instructions for falling in love
1. Have an eating disorder
2. Wear very little clothing
3. Lots of makeup, no one likes a natural beauty
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5. Say little
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for·ni·ca·tion n
1. sexual intercourse between two consenting adults, who are not married to each other
2. in the Bible, sexual intercourse between a man and woman who are not married, or any form of sexual behavior considered to be immoral

“For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication”
1 Thessalonians. (4:3)

In an affidavit, the girl, now 17, said the priest touched her, kissed her and said he wanted to have sex with her or marry her and ultimately committed two sexual acts on her.

Every night
Her mother told her a fairy tale
Always a princess
Rescued by a prince
A damsel in distress
And always happily ever after
“If you are good,” she told her
“You’ll get a prince too”

I was married to my abuser for 5 years. He was extremely verbally abusive, manipulative, and played head games, often making me feel crazy. He became physically violent after a few weeks, throwing things, shoving me, and trying to throw me out of the house in my underwear. At one point he even pulled a knife on me. But I continued to stay, always praying, always hoping that he would change back into the man I had known before we were married. I thought, he hasn’t hit me, so it’s not that bad, I can stay.

Once upon a time there was a princess. And she needed no prince.

He tantalizes me
With his eyes
I am melting chocolate
Dripping down his skin
Stuck in his teeth

A single older woman is an old maid. Looked down upon in every culture. A single man, he is a God, he is a bachelor.

More than 100 women have been raped in a single attack carried out by Arab militias in Darfur in western Sudan

I miss love

The sexual violence seemed to utterly despoil all my fantasies of loving and being loved. He would sometimes tell me I was a stupid, prudish bitch who needed a good fuck; he seemed to enjoy desecrating my highest ideals. I wondered if they were worth hanging on to. I didn’t know what to be to stop it; it didn’t occur to me to think it was strange that sometimes he said he was doing it because I was a whore, and at other times, because I was a prude.

A virgin
Is a prude
An ice queen
Is your desecration dream
“What are you waiting for?”
Scorn her friends

When Tamara Brooks and Jacqueline Marris were abducted at gunpoint nine days later from a remote teenage trysting spot in Lancaster, Calif., they devised a plan to break free by stabbing their abductor in the neck. When one girl had the chance to escape, she didn’t take it for fear that the other girl — whom she hadn’t met before that night — would be killed if she abandoned her.

“Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and the sexually immoral” Hebrews (13:4)

It is a fact that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped, than learning how to read.

Cosmo can teach you. Playboy can show you. Maxim can reiterate it. When will you learn? To be anyone, to be anything you need to have sex appeal. Turn on your TV its there. It’s not TV if there is no sex. Still not convinced? Read a paper. Sexual assault is happening. No one cares about love any more. We want sex. We want it now. And we want more. We want it on our walls. We want it everywhere. Who needs love, when you can lie on your back and have the world?

I grew up with love
Not having it
But wanting it