Public void announcement
public void announcement() {
//you wake you up to a text from your friends
//about work, about navigating life, should I wear lipstick to the interview?
//maybe you didn’t woke up,
//fine, it’s noon, you are in the kitchen, you don’t follow news
//why would you, another woman is killed today
//the stories arrive at the doorbell of your head with the same tune
//yet you know, you know, you can feel it, each one is not like the other
//each one carries a trail of suffering splashed like the sea when the hurricane hits
//the walls built to contain it.
//Each one a reminder in your body.
//As if we didn’t had a suspicion that any day can be a call to you
//instead of their mom, sister, grandma and friends.
//Any day might be you.
//As if murder has not reason, he did it because, the officer said
//He, is standing there, he is shown in photos passed around
//He has no comment on remorse, he is 21 years old.
//He had an addiction, he got a gun, he drove.
//This is why you don’t follow the news
//you think and text your friends to make sure they are okay
//and they are, what? we are okay.
//What happened, who were they, I don’t know, we are still
//to know anything but women and massage parlor
//We are still to know if they drove if they had a good day
//Can you imagine?
}
March 17, 2021