For this project, I chose to highlight the struggle that victims of sexual violence and ultimately, rape, find themselves in when it comes to depending on the criminals justice system to hold their attackers accountable. The piece of literature I drew from to create this poem is this article written by Ronald Goldfarb in 1973, highlighting the issues facing women seeking to prosecute and are met with an underwhelming response from those who are supposed to enforce justice. The poem begins with "rape made public," since the suffering of women made known is when the system must now decide how to respond to a brave decision to testify their story and trauma. The poem describes how society itself fails to adequately punish attackers and the myths about women's role in sexuality and their responsibilities to resist against the aggression of men who do not understand how to respect or honor women, but sadly, instead see them as a "plaything." The most powerful words in this poem for me are when it states that women are seen as "fabricators" and "provokers." If a woman's mere existence in her own body is provocation, then she is, in essence, blamed for the violent and horrifying experience of sexual assault because of her viewed inherent sexuality and man's entitlement to her body without respecting her as a human being, deserving of dignity, respect, and ought to be given the right to equal protection as men receive under the U.S criminal justice system.