"The text for Consent is a juxtaposition of passages from five different sources: love letters I wrote in 2002, love letters my father wrote in 1962, the Catholic Rite of Marriage, the Traditional Jewish Ketubah (wedding contract), and text messages by high-school students Trent Mays and Lucas Herrington that were used as evidence in the infamous Stuebenville Rape Trial in 2013. I set these words in order to explore my personal relationship to gender inequality and our connection to language that justifies sexual violence."

http://www.tedhearne.com/works/consent

text: 
i want you
i want to

i want you
i want to

i want you
i want to

I do.

I was thinking penetrating thoughts about you
It will be good, we can do it, and we need it.

                  It can be taken from me - even from the shirt on my back.

I was thinking penetrating thoughts about you
It will be good, we can do it, and we need it
I miss you too, in a heart-aching kind of way.

                  All of it shall be mortgageable and bound as security - 
                  It can be taken from me - even from the shirt on my back.

I do.
                                    I just took care of your daughter.

* * *

Declare your consent
The missing you hurts
You’ll be in it soon
What a way to feel
Who gives this woman

* * *

i want you
i want to

                  All of it shall be mortgageable - 
                                    I just took care of your daughter
                  and bound as security -
                                    she said you could take a picture

i want you
i want to

                                    I just took care of your daughter and made sure she was safe
                                    she was so in love with me that night
                  I ask you to state your intentions

                  All of it shall be mortgageable and bound as security -
                  it can be taken from me, even from the shirt on my back - 
                  during my lifetime and after this lifetime,
                  this day and forever.

                                    I just took care of your daughter and made sure she was safe
                                    she said you could take a picture
                                    she looks dead lmao

* * *
I do.

I was thinking penetrating thoughts about you
It will be good, we can do it, and we need it.
I miss you too, in a heart-aching kind of way
I’m really looking forward to adding to it

                  All of it can be mortgageable and bound as security - 
                  it can be taken from me - even from the shirt on my back - 
                  during my lifetime and after this lifetime
                  this day and forever

                                    How have you been holding out on me with that picture for so long?
                                    she said you could take a picture
                                    oh i am looking at all my pictures of you

You don’t even want to know what I’m imagining you doing right now
she was so in love with me that night
                  Declare your consent before God

                                    I just took care of your daughter when she was drunk

* * *

                                    This original amount, I accept upon myself and my heirs after me - 
                                    It can be paid from the best part of my property and possessions
                                    that I own under all the heavens. 
                                    All of it shall be mortgageable and bound as security -
                                    it can be taken from me - even from the shirt on my back - 
                                    during my lifetime and after this lifetime - 
                                    from this day and forever.

                  even from the shirt on my back
                  she said you could take a picture
                  I refuse to get excited

                                    Will you accept children lovingly from God? 
                                    Declare your consent before God and the church.

I felt knowing what was right  
she looks dead lmao
i just took care of your daughter

but i also know we are equal to almost any…
she said you could take a picture

Who gives this woman?