Sunday, March 18, 2012

Captivity


I woke up in the dark. I’d forgotten what happened.

I was captive. I’d been on the train--every day on the train--back and forth. I could trace the route with my finger. The bends, the bridges, the tunnels, the nauseating closeness to the other cell mates.

Hermetically sealed uniforms filling the factory conduits: pink-red to packing, light blue to redistribution, cream to assembly, and us whites to the labs.

Little white light bulbs with disposable plastic gloves and carcinogenic chemicals. 

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