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      August 6, 2014CourthouseMonica Wendel

      At the rally for the woman who was raped
      by that cop, Reverend Billy started in on
      corporations, eventually winding his way down
      to her body. The booing stopped, then. In Bushwick,
      near Varet Street, one wheatpasted sign reads
      you can’t have capitalism without racism and another
      says occupy my penis. Audre Lorde said the master’s tools
      will never dismantle the master’s house which I hated
      when I first heard it—of course plantation tools
      could kick holes in walls, of course fire burns both
      fields and hearths, until I realized what she meant.
      Or maybe I still don’t. Maybe the sign should have read
      you can’t have capitalism without misogyny or plain old fuck cops
      after the trial was over, a jury member said, of course
      the cop did it, we just didn’t have enough to convict. It was
      he said she said. Here’s all I can say: the cops formed
      a wall outside the courthouse, hands behind their
      backs, chests forward. Like they were the ones under
      attack. Like it’s not violence if someone gets off.

      from #42 - Winter 2013

      Monica Wendel

      “I live in Jack Kerouac’s house. This is a symbol, or a metaphor, maybe, but it’s also a thing that’s true. The other day two college students knocked on the door, asking if they could come in to see where Jack lived. I write because I want to cause problems, not solve them. I write because there’s more truth in our questions than in our answers.”