Rape On The High Seas Poem by Sidi Mahtrow

Rape On The High Seas



The deck runs red with blood
Of those that moments before were free
Now lying there, struggling in the grasp
Of one who will take by force
Life's treasure and last breath.

Plunging deep into the belly
Of the victim, the gory knife
Rips the flesh and slices through
The virginal tissue, never penetrated before
All in lust for this body's store.

Fingers dig deep within
As the victim struggles in pain
Grasping the ovary's sac
Tearing it away in a wanton attack
To yield the golden treasure within.

Done, the body, not yet dead
Is tossed overboard to waiting prey
And the bloody stew, sloshes back and fro
While the treasured golden roe
Into the waiting ice bucket go.

This is a crime against both female and male alike
But the male's white roe in its sac has no value, so
There is no reason to save this thumb sized virginal roe
And fish and sac go over board unwanted
To the depths below.

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POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
The boats cluster close by so one can almost walk from one to another as the mullet run just off shore. Nets haul fish, sometimes as many as twenty in a single cast aboard and the slaughter begins. Slitting open the belly, the organs exposed and there lies the roe in a sack about the size of your thumb. It's ripped free and if golden is tossed into an ice bucket while the fish is slung overboard. Being unable to distinguish male from female until the roe is exposed, the white roe, which has no value and the male provider are both tossed overboard. The roe has no market in the United States, but finds a ready buyer in those countries that feast upon such a delicacy. This plunder happens once a year just offshore near Sarasota Florida.
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