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This Is A Debate
Sarah Fletcher
This is a debate about free will.
You ask me where I’d draw the line
if I were back again: the extra swill
of scotch, the train ride home, the glass of wine.
This really boils down to views on choice:
that out of this and that, well, I chose that.
I had some cash. I could have raised my voice.
There was a point I must’ve known. And at
that point, my mind drew blank. This is a debate
about the mind, or politics. Not rape.
Discourse scrubbed clean from static: no complaints
of bruise or blood, or how the shower scraped
his smell off barely. Let’s sort the mine from his.
You ask me for a line, so here it is.
Sarah Fletcher is an American-British poet in her final year at Durham University. In 2012, she was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year and a winner of the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize. In 2015, her pamphlet 'Kissing Angles' was published by Dead Ink. Her poetry has appeared in The Rialto, The London Magazine, and The Missing Slate.
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