inspired by ~K's "shut up"

[joel]

I think I want to state that I am not a violent man or an advocate of domestic abuse. I don't know why I've been hung up on violent themes lately...but (especially to ~K (whose thread I didn't wanna attack with my hang ups)) I don't mean any offense. I'm just interested in how people might justify their oppression of others...and why/how they get away with it. Enough pontificating....

She’s a bitch. Why’s it always the guy
who takes shit for her black-and-blue eye?
Am I really to blame
for the miniscule shame
that I slapped her while waving good-bye?

They’re all cocks—she might think about men
as she watches him leaving. But then
again, she could be wrong—
they aren’t really that strong,
just misguided. Excuses. Amen.