Inconsistency
Sia C. Aveno
“The
conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them
aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.
People who have
survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory,
and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the
twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy.” – Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery
It’s pretty
obvious: she isn’t pretty (at
least not obviously so). She knows
The boys say:
No one would
ever want to
touch her. She wants
To scream.
She can’t; she
couldn’t
that night, In
that room
with two men.
One was her lover The other her father
One went outside. The other went inside her.
(It was the wrong one.)
She wants to
tell them
they are wrong. She wants to tell them
It was wrong. She wants them to be
right,
That no one
had (no one can hear you)
(No—)
wanted (I know you want it)
(No)
to touch her.
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