love and slavery

Knows to call someone before hand,  know someone before hand, or someone who knows someone  before embarking on anything required by the government.  [Why stand in line when you can afford to pay the necessary bribes to get the documentations you need?] Convinces me to pull out my English when asking for a service so the service providers can know I am worth more in their time [and…

Image from Pinterest 1. One morning, in the middle of breakfast making, your mother’s relative reaches out and grabs at your breast. Your mind trips into your memory and you are seven years old and another woman is playing x and o’s with your privates. 2. Maybe it is because, when for the second time in your life, you attempted to tell your mother, that someone had attempted to break into your…

My father tries to kill me twice before the age of twelve. both times I’m a tiny thing on a floor. He breaks the branch of a jacaranda tree on my skin and I lose my voice. In both scenarios he screams: I will kill you. In both scenarios, my mother stands by and watches me die. In both scenarios I am unsure of the things I have done that deserve death.  In both scenarios I die.  I learn…

Image by: William Cheselden My mother arrives in two days and there is nothing I can do stop her, to hide, to avoid her eyes seeing us for what we have become. We are dying and I do not mind. Mother, I know you will be horrified at what you will find. At what I have become. I know you will want to tear your eyes from their sockets and stuff them down my throat until you get an answer. I am…