Strip Tease

Part of the email, "Restorative Justice," sent to Mr. Maron on Sept 13, 2022, 4:03 pm:

When I was around 19, I had started joining a friend in doing some amateur strip dancing. After she and I got raped by 3 guys, I started to realize that perhaps I had been sent off into the world by my father with a sucky set of work skills. I wrote this:

 Strip Tease

by

Judy S. Lentz

I would start with my hair

take it off like a wig

throw it into that hole

you once made me dig

Next, it's the feet

that failed to run

rip each one off slowly

 smile when I'm done

Now for the skin

it's easy to peel

off layers of pigment

with nerves made to feel

Out seeps old blood

a dark, stagnant flow

from a heart that ceased 

doing its job long ago

The muscle and fat that

 created my form

comes off in great lumps

odorous, barely warm

Skeletal fingers grab 

ahold of dead eyes

rip the orbs from skewed holes as

 lungs heave relieved sighs

Unholy lips are torn

 from a face

that has longed for the time

 it is finally erased

Exposed teeth gnaw at fingers

 tear away at each hand

shake them off violently

no one cares where they land

A deformed mass of 

doughy gray matter

slips out of the skull

hits the ground with a splatter

Bones tense up, shiver

 turn to dust, drop defiled

into dry shattered tear drops

 unshed by a child

Okay, here I am 

daddy, what will you do

this last time your child stands

raw before you