social erosion

By Margaret Owen Ruckert | 04 Mar 26
Photo by Blogging Guide on Unsplash

don’t know how it started

     but I know where to find it –

the elevator at my college

a wave of male students

     surge in surge out

in their testosterone power

didn’t hear all the talk

     but teachers are forever targets

& being one, guess I’m sensitive –

fucking stupid

fuck her

fucking bitch

every second word

     a grain of sand

slipping back to chaos

that fractured world

     from the archives of the angry

when women were thought nothing

you say, fuck is just slang 

     Oz favourite

I’m being precious

you are not me

     the word is a sexual blur

I can’t not stop the subtexts

real as erosion, ongoing