<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nowhere To Run</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had wanted to say scathing words <br>about ideology germane to female <br>genital mutilation; I could not see <br>justification pertains for an act only <br>inimitable as barbarous. In diffuse <br>debate I learned how little I knew. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If preservation of innocence is taken <br>to extremes there are ways I couldn’t <br>dream to perpetuate that blissful <br>state; clitoridectomy is just one which <br>screams the loudest distaste to my <br>hormonally challenged ears. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I did the reading, looked up diagrams <br>saw pictures of unsightly scarring too <br>horrendous to accept as imperatives <br>of racially deemed social distinction. <br>Innocence isn’t preserved by cutting <br>pre-pubescents’ non-consenting flesh. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I rested my case. Then in an easy <br>afternoon I learned of circumcision and <br>a host of procedures utilised to raise <br>breasts and reduce wrinkles including <br>genital modification not too dissimilar. <br>And there was nowhere to run... <br>© 6 February 2010, I. D. Carswell</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivan+Donn+Carswell">Ivan Donn Carswell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=566815" data-title="Nowhere To Run de Ivan Donn Carswell" data-description="I had wanted to say scathing words about ideology germane to female genital mutilation; I could not see justification pertains for an act only inimitable as barbarous. In diffuse debate I learned how little I knew. If preservation of innoce..."></div> </div> </div>

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