2020 Issue

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Callisto

Sylvia Welch Virginity is an exalted lie, and what lies in your hands is nothing but the fallible burden of proof: Righteousness in the hands of a rapist. Nobody believes you, and now you are blamed by the woman you admired and loved, by the Justice of heaven above. Forget the concept of purity. If the purest is deemed unfit, deemed at fault, then who is righteous? Forget the concept of touch. It is untraceable on the skin like a scar that refused to form or legs that refused to perform You tried to run. Forget the concept of truth. If it falls on deaf ears, it has no use. And everyone believes they alone are inculpable while everything else is a ruse. Why did Zeus go blameless?

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