You Have A Male Poem by Abraham Onoja

You Have A Male



Who cares? It's just one inmate screwing another

the jailed can't be jailed
so we are left to their
"devices"

passed from room to room
as body currency
our dignities change hands
until we are forced to
deny ownership

the strong survive; fight for yourself...

a jailbird finds freedom
in punctuating our bodies
before long, our souls follow suit
and stop resisting, allowing to be
morally raped

it's either rape or be raped...

we only live to tell the story
of how we turned Homo Homo Sapiens

Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: rape
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
A poem about prison rape. I had to read prison reports about the sexual dynamics where I got to learn about how those who have spent a great deal of time in prison molest the fresh inmates who are often between 18-25.
The prison wardens do nothing about it because after all, how do you send someone in prison to prison?
Some of the victims hung themselves, others lost their masculinity
Some became confused about their sexual orientation
The title came from the prison slang, _fresh meat_
When the gangs see a new fresh prisoner Who they trick into sodomy
So "you have a male" is a play on "you have a mail", the notification message Meaning that the gangs have fresh prisoners to abuse
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