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NOT ALL MEN

July Westhale

He isn't sexist, you say,
just an old letch. He loves
women. It won't stop
raining. There are awful blossoms
spread-eagle on the road.
White bloom panties so prolific
you'd have looked at it and thought:
now there is a man who loves women. 

              The
call
is
coming       
from
inside
the
house

 

 

 

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I was at a table of men at AWP last year and they were discussing some or another of the latest sexual harassment accusations against a well-awarded male poet. One of them said that he didn't believe the man was a creep, "he just really loves women". The scene from "Scream" came into my mind, where Drew Barrymore receives a call from someone who is about to kill her, and the call is coming from inside the house.