2.24.2017 [Vernesta]
Vernesta smiled
at us, the other
seventh graders
who came to play.
small, slight of
build, but wary
of gaze, she
knew something
that the rest of us
didn’t as we said
come out and play
at her fenced in
yard, but she
couldn’t stay
because, wrapped
in a mink
and dressed in
heels and sleek
dress, she had
to go out with
the men that
mom had scheduled
for them.
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