We are all of us, watching a woman being whipped.
There are cow eyed women up there, helping hold her down, they whisper awful things between the sounds of the wet impacts and the screams.
There are brutes with guns too, the politicians standing behind them remind us that the first to try and stop it will get shot.
We must stand here and endure it, there is no going home and closing the shades, nor are we allowed to flinch as the thin stripes of blood spatter us.
We are all of us, watching a woman being whipped and the only murmurs in the crowd to sooth us come from the same, tired old senators. They whisper, "Vote for us next cycle, we only drown women in secret."
It's more humane don't you know.
We are all of us watching a woman being whipped to death and history will condemn us all as cowards.
