Rape Joke | Patricia Lockwood

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Rape Joke

The rape joke is that you were 19 years old.

The rape joke is that he was your boyfriend.

The rape joke it wore a goatee. A goatee.

Imagine the rape joke looking in the mirror, perfectly reflecting back itself, and grooming itself to look more like a rape joke. “Ahhhh,” it thinks. “Yes. A goatee.”

No offense.

Comments

[fullofsparks]

Holy shit.

[rosadina]

Finished with a sick feeling in my stomach. Awful and perfectly awful.

[mandiferous]

A friend posted this on Facebook a few weeks ago. There was just a string of identical comments (including mine) that just said "holy shit."

There's nothing else you can say. It's still shocking and amazing and chilling after several reads.