its name?
Toxic Masculinity.
It's jaw is large,
wide,
and flexible.
It's low but loud growl
drones on with the oozing slobber
drip-drips into the ocean,
hissing as each droplet reaches the waves.
Looking down
at the ends of its marred and mangled arms
are long talons that
I suppose
you could consider fingers.
In one hand is a man
being strangled between the claws,
trying to speak,
pointing to his head–
"Help me," he mouths the words, but
the only help he gets are shouts to "man up."
No one hears his thoughts
and the monster has stolen his breath to speak.
In the other mangled claw is a woman
whose face is flushed red and her hair
standing up from her perspective.
She is being held by the hairs of her private parts,
her legs pulled apart by gravity
that she's too exhausted to fight.
She tries to yell for help,
but the crowd is too busy
telling him to "man up"
that no one hears her either.
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