Why Penn State is Not a Surprise: Bad Poetry Alert

Dorinda D.

Location: Orlando, Florida, United States
Birthday: May 20

Bio: I teach writing at several universities. My two daughters are seven and 18. I adore my children, have trouble raising them, and you will read more about them than you care to. I am a professional cancer survivor. There is a lot more that I don't know than I do know.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011 10:24AM

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After 30 years of intimacy

not always

but often enough

late at night

in the dark

during the after talk

they tell me.

"My uncle"

"My cousin"

"My coach"

"My frat big brother"

"My sister’s boyfriend"

Always someone they knew.

Forget stranger danger.

Then their voices change

in the dark

and they are boys again.

"I was 10."

"I was 8."

"I was 14."

"I was 12."

“And he told me never to tell.”

That is not when they cry.

Only at this …

"They already knew and nobody helped me."

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OMG. This is so pain filled. I think of these children and where was the outrage. Now rioting and doing damage because an old man coach was fired. An old man who should have done something, who should have cared more, who knew better. Who in the hell was he protecting? Who were they all protecting? Certainly not children. Not the children.

SheilaTGTG55

November 10, 2011 10:29 AM

yes - discovering that you were not the first or last to be attacked makes it much more difficult - in some cases impossible - to get back to a functioning state.

Snowden

November 10, 2011 10:45 AM

"They already knew and nobody helped me."

This says it all.

OEsheepdog

November 10, 2011 10:48 AM

And that's why Joe Paterno just lost his job.

koshersalaami

November 10, 2011 11:49 AM

I'm not that good a judge, but I wouldn't deprecate your skills over this one.

koshersalaami

November 10, 2011 11:50 AM

Poetry is always the best expression of tragedy. As I wrote in my post on this scandal, The Lion in Winter, we will never know how many more victims will choose to carry their burden silently rather than speak out now that this horror has been exposed.