The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org 2009

Killing Kenya Rape

My cousin's mother flirted outrageously. My cousin dyes her hair her mother's conspicuous blonde but she doesn't flirt. But she does mention an article advising women our age to have affairs. I couldn't live with myself. I have adopted my mother's morals, which are also, notwithstanding the flirting, my cousin's mother's morals. What might the rouged curvaceous aunt in a corset have told her daughter and has it made sex better. She fed my cousin erratically. I was force-fed as a child, at 40 felt coerced to have an abortion. In Kenya young men take young women into the tall grasses without their consent. It's called rape but it's approved. 19 women died in a rape attack in a coed school. They couldn't get away, hid under beds, were crushed, asphyxiated.

Phyllis Koestenbaum