I pull the pigtails
of a pale
little girl
whose skirt
is a raggedy shroud.
She is skinny
innocence
and says
in a past life
she carried
a cross.
She says, “Every time I shoplift, an angel sheds a tear”
Rob Goldstein 2015-2018
Tag: #digitalart
#WordlessWednesday: Leaf
#SundayMotivation: Gandhi
“To a man with an empty stomach food is God.” ~Gandhi
Rob Goldstein 2018
The personal is political, again
Warning: May be triggering
I Believe Christine Blasey Ford
Here’s why:
‘Gay looking’ boys are frequent targets for rape in misogynist cultures.
The victims are usually blamed for it; as if gay people invite violence
by living.
I was 12, an outcast, a sissy.
I wanted to be liked; so when two guys in their late teens asked me if I wanted to party, I said yes.
They got me drunk.
They got me high; and I lay there and stared at a cheap painting of the Last Supper as they stripped me and took turns.
I felt betrayed and ashamed.
I bled for a week and told no one because I thought I wanted it.
It took decades for me to realize I was only 12, that it was rape.
Listening to Christina Blasey Ford brought back memories.
The Kavanaugh Hearing feels like rape.
We don’t have to live like this.
We don’t have to live at the mercy of heartless predators.
Rob Goldstein 2018
Header image based on The Last Supper, ca. 1520, Andrea Solari, after Leonardo da Vinci, oil on canvas, in the Leonardo da Vinci Museum, Tongerlo Abbey.
