Source: nanmykel.com
OUT TO GET ME
On the streets of New York
every woman wears a lasso at her side.
She struts her stuff and gives a wink–
or was an eyelash in her eye?
Her beauty lures me to her until I am
the captor, no longer her, and with
my marriage vows in shambles,
she escapes. There ought be a law.
(Idon’t know how to get my poem to you)
My comment would be: When researching for my first book, I read “Men Who Rape,” by Nicholas Groth, and found that many men experience the attractiveness of women as an aggressive magnet used against them.
NANMYKEL.COM 
I wonder, it’s often said that rape is not about sex but about power… and I guess there are those who feels the need to “control”… BTW I corrected your link at dVerse…
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This is quite a tough subject but I think the shortness conveys the disturbed perspective.
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It had to be, else I would have depressed myself!
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Ah yes… sometimes it is the other way around.. but we just can’t see it..
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Boy, some of us sure can. See blog “Pleasant Street.”
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Great poem – excellent perspective – I wrote on a very similar theme of male socialization.
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Thanks. I had just picked up a book on the free shelf at our library by Bill Cosby, called “Cosbyology.” It’s short stories and one of them is headed “The Day I Decided to Quit Show Business or The Night I Met the Enemy and It Was I” (p181)
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You have said so much in brevity – admirable writing.
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appreciate those kind words.
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That’s a chilling thought that some men feel that a woman’s attractiveness is an aggressive magnet used against them! What? I love your opening line here.
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Maybe it’s primarily limited to rapists?
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Oh, maybe so.
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Sadly.. there are some
folks and some cultures who/
that cannot bear the thought
that women have a choice..
and those are most all
weak
folks/
cultures
@
heARt
most often fostered
first by daddies
and or mommies
who say
boys
don’t cry..
they do or
they dry up
and eventually
blow
away….
taking much
wreckage with
tHeir storm of
fear
and
hate…
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Right on. Thanks.
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Thanks too.. 🙂
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Funny how we can twist a perspective so as to justify our (harmful) intentions ~ It is also his fault but he will always insist that he is not at fault ~
Enjoyed your take ~ Thanks for joining us ~
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Nice to see you here at dVerse. This raises the question of predator and prey. I wrote about it in nature–straightforward. You put forth the complications that we humans add to the equation.
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