Poetry & Short Stories

It’s about all of US

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Isla MacGregor
She was her best friend – and found out she was exchanging drugs for sex
He is her father – he cried when she admitted to him she had been pack raped
She is her daughter – but her mother would not tell her how her face got so bruised
He is his old school mate – and could not understand why he was so depressed all the time
She was her neighbour – and was frightened by the screams coming nightly from the house
He was her brother – and was arrested and jailed for beating the man up who tortured her
She was the granddaughter – whose mother had committed suicide after 4 years at the brothel
He was his football team mate – and he hated listening to the bragging about the beatings
She was her sister – who watched her slowly becoming dehumanised
He was the husband – who lost his family and his children after the divorce
She was the wife – who found the phone number in his pocket and rang it
He was her flat mate – who had had helped her to bed so often at night, senseless and in pain
She was her mother – who, not knowing why, watched her daughter became more traumatised by the day
He was the ex fiancée – who regrets the bucks night party at the brothel over the Channel
She was her auntie – who warned her about the overseas work contract she signed before disappearing
He was the son – who listened as men raped his grandmother, mother and sister in the border village
She …………….had endured for ten years degradation and violence in prostitution since she was fourteen –
she is a SURVIVOR and she wants you to know…….

“The punters sex trade spin ‘not about us without us”
Think again – it is about violence – it’s about all of US”

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