"'rape Schedule" Poem by Sheri Kuzco

'I am on a rape schedule
It's after 10,
the city is receding...
A murmur of ‘go home'
is in the air,
Audible only
to my ear...
My husband said I should be back by 11
I should have been in bed by 10...
Because I am on a rape schedule....
it's forty minutes to home
With every passing second...
a highly consequential,
highly avoidable fate is met...
Because I am on a rape schedule...
everyday that I follow the schedule
and everyday that I come home.'