I Am an Emotional Creature by Ensler Eve

Author:Ensler, Eve [Ensler, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Drama, feminism, Social Science, Social life and customs, Biography & Autobiography, poetry, social conditions, Psychology, Women's Studies, gender studies, General, 21st Century, Girls
ISBN: 9781400061044
Amazon: 1400061040
Goodreads: 6979094
Publisher: Villard
Published: 2010-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

I HAVE 35 MINUTES BEFORE HE COMES LOOKING FOR ME

Sofia, Bulgaria

I am sixteen.

I am trembling.

I am always trembling.

The trembling is like

a body flinching after

it’s been shot.

I am dead inside.

He will come back.

I must speak quickly.

I hate my hair.

I was sold two years ago.

I can’t get out.

I am meat.

I am an animal.

I am sixteen.

I am owned by them.

They do what they want.

I am tall.

My legs are long.

There are burns.

I am an ashtray.

A garbage pail.

My hands trembling.

Sometimes they refuse to use condoms.

If we refuse them, we are beaten.

Look my back

There are gashes

I was twelve.

My father always drunk.

Always angry.

His friend, his best friend

who was forty started raping me.

Whenever he saw me.

He threatened to ruin me if I told.

He threatened to tell my father.

Two years

I did what he wanted.

He gave me syphilis.

This is herpes on my mouth.

I hate my hair.

(She stands up.)

What, what?

Are you sure he doesn’t know?

Are you sure he isn’t coming in?

(She sits down.)

We got caught. My father’s

best friend. Someone walked

in when he was raping me

against a wall.

He told my father I put him

up to it.

My father believed him.

My father beat me with a

wooden piece of furniture

and threw me out.

I could not walk for weeks.

But I was on the run.

17 minutes

My father exiled me,

and my mother,

because she was with him

twenty-two years,

did not speak up.

Fourteen, no place to go,

on the streets,

a man took me in.

Then my brother

my only friend

turned his back on me.

Then the man started

beating …

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