The policeman pulled me over

For not wearing a mask.

He asked why I did not feel the need for protection.

I sat thinking without saying anything, yet.

Is it that I don’t believe there’s a problem?

Or that I don’t see a mask as a solution?

But before I could say a word,

He grabbed me by both feet at once and jerked me around,

“Answer ME!” he demanded, then, he

Pulled up my skirt and raped me.

And when he was done,

He wiped the slobber from his mouth,

With his arm, zipped up his pants and said,

It wasn’t his fault he hadn’t seen a woman’s face in so long

That he couldn’t control himself.

But you know that the prophets say,

Lawlessness always follows 

In the wake of a pandemic,

Even a fake one.

-jenn