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      November 12, 2017Partial List of MenElizabeth McMunn-Tetangco

      the man who wrote me
      all the letters about love
      when I was nine the man
      who stared at me in math
      class through the window
      masturbating the man who
      cupped his hand real quick
      around my ass when I walked
      by the man who followed
      me one time on the bus
      home the man who followed
      me one time in his car the
      man who chased me till
      I ran into a church to get
      away the man who followed
      me one night outside the club
      telling me that he would fuck me
      the man who pushed me
      down until I couldn’t breathe
      the man who stood outside
      my house till I got home the
      man we laughed at in the
      car with his junk out how
       
      at first I had thought it was just a tool belt

      from Poets Respond

      Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco

      “The fact that Roy Moore has not (as of this writing) left the Alabama Senate race despite the fact that he is almost certainly a sexual predator, coupled with the fact that he still stands a good chance of winning, inspired me to write this. In some ways, my experiences with predatory men have been pretty minor—I’m lucky. But everyone I know has had experiences like these (or much worse), and this is a huge problem. Also, this is not even a comprehensive list of what I have experienced. I feel like we need to keep talking about this. It makes me so angry that being a sexual predator doesn’t preclude one from holding office. It means that people who vote don’t think this matters.”

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