Found Poem (words from The Handmaid's Tale)

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There once was a fairytale.
Each woman would live on Venus,
their breathless days waiting for sex.
Each woman dressed in a pastel technicolor gown,
gay for her star to be exploded.
Each man was a creature from outer space, black eyed.
They had an idea of each woman to be exotic,
beautiful -sunset hair,
colored glass eyes.
Each woman had hunger for love, I know.
It is not a fairytale.
I’m sitting on Venus, a wool blanket over me.
I look at the horizon.
A creature was heading my way, red radiation along the horizon.
He grips my waist with his hands, fingers drumming on me.
The damp air above me is like a lid.
A stifled groan comes from his mouth, smells of dirty metal colored cinnamon.
I sink glass into one of his eyes,
the hole drenched with dark blood.
Bastards.
I am not a angel, I am not a wrecked angel.
Can you hear me?
I ache.
Miserable tears come out of my eyes,
I am, I am, I am…
am I normal?

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