There is no difference between being raped
and being pushed down a flight of stairs
Except that the wounds also bleed inside.

There is no difference between being raped
and being run over by a truck
Except that afterwards men asked you if you
enjoyed it

There is no difference between being raped
and going head first through a windshield
Except that afterwards you are afraid not of cars
But of half the human race.

Extract from a poem by Marge Piercy

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