News Story: A 15 year old girl sold her baby sister, age 7, for sex to men in a Bronx(?) tenement.
I wonder
was it the need for beads or just the day
to pawn baby sister away for food or tennis shoes, or?
I wonder why
why big sister plied consent with her own
freshly earned vajaja lucre--
a loving enticement to buy baby's surrender
Food, tennis shoes, a phone?
I wonder
where is this village,
this tribe,
where big sisters are the guides
thru days of black and onerous rites?
Poetry inspired by ~Fibromyalgia, ~Current events, ~Family events
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