Slam poems of a generation

Isnt it something

Isn't it something
how people categorize calling one person a victim
and another a survivor
even though they were both a part of the same horrible crime
  Isn't it something
How an 11 year old rape victim in Northwest Ohio is pregnant
And according to a new highly restrictive state law on abortion
Signed the month before
Says that a girl in her position
Must not only carry and deliver her rapists baby
But also should think again if she wants things like Medicaid, food stamps, or financial help while raising said baby
Just because she decided to show the straps of her brand new
favorite
ruby red bra.
  Isn't it something
How a 15 year old girl hasn't eaten a school lunch in weeks
but the moment she clutches her empty stomach
A boy can save her by offering her his banana
But when she takes it he says she can only keep it if she tries to deep throat it first
She had seen on animal planet that predators start young
But she thought that was just an animal thing
  Isn't it something
How a woman can walk to work in NYC
Get catcalled in the sunlight
And on her way home
After working in a mans world
She is dragged into an alley way and raped
He leaves her there till sunrise
For when she gets home
She has to tell her only daughter
That the world is a magical place
  Isn't it something
How people have holidays built upon torture
China has Yulin
The holiday where people torture and skin and eat the meat off of poor defenseless dogs
America has Colombus day
Where we celebrate a man who took over many territories
Leaving whatever
Or whoever
he didn't want
behind for the flies
  Isn't it something
That in the Middle East
12 year old girls are being forced into marriage
Only to be stoned to death for not being a perfect partner
Barely even in puberty
And something so amazing
that is their human life
Can get taken away from them
  Isn't it something
How the world is heating up
How our ice may be a thing of the past
Hey everyone
I know it's 150° in Texas right now so who want to go to a chilly get away in Antarctica
We can see what's left of the polar bears and try to find a pelt big enough to make a rug
Make sure to bring a light sweater
  Isn't it something
How a 14 year old girl
Who goes to school everyday
Who isn't bad off
Can know things like this are happening and want to change it
But adults will turn the blind eye
To save what is left of their crumbling world view
Not protest in the streets because it will cause to much traffic
They
Who would rather stand idly by
Rather than try to change the world
Will complain about the protests in front of the White House
from the comfort of their living room couches
  Isn't that something