Mind Your Language

I am serious enough
To laugh all day long
And laugh not to cry.
I do not place my thoughts
In vacuum-packed words
Gift-wrapped,
But rather say what I mean.
I am like a woman
Who marries her rapist
So as to punish him
With her fidelity,
And let him punish her
With her own obstinacy,
Lest we lose the beat
For lack of beating.