I would have appreciated
the flowers you placed
on top of my already buried body
if they did not reek
of my own blood
— Alana Marroquim, Nov. 2020
I would have appreciated
the flowers you placed
on top of my already buried body
if they did not reek
of my own blood
— Alana Marroquim, Nov. 2020
My prison is not made of bars
it is made of flesh
And the shackles aren’t metal
They throb
— Alana Marroquim, Nov. 2020