Boys will be boys Boys will be boys They chuckle Excusing them now For crimes committed then The rapes The almost rapes The assaults and indecencies As if youth And adolescence Were an excuse Absolving them of guilt Of blame Of responsibility As if being young And male Was license enough And we should just let sleeping dogs lie This poem was prompted by coverage of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court and Ronan Farrow's coverage of his possible sexual assault while at Yale as well as apologists who clamored "Boys will be boys!"