Leslie Contreras Schwartz
they said there's more in the back we left it like it was the back room opened into
shower stalls and rooms with locks not on the doors there were no doorknobs but
chains and zip-ties and stacked heels without pairs things untethered from captor
captive
just objects free of will: spray can of lube old cracked wallet with family photos
credit
cards side table sagging bare mattress dark memory in a purpled stain no one
is here but me reading how girls were lined up in this foyer under glowing lights a
drive-through window by the front door which is now the back door with a set of
files office supplies a chair i read how girls are sold for a dollar and a beer at
cantinas across from the break-in room I asked what it means i remember
a room is just four walls a mattress made of polyurethane foam latex foam cotton fiber
and plastic cable ties are nylon with teeth and an awl there are no girls here no boys a
negligee is polyester synthetic fiber blend made in a clean white laboratory
a shower stall is just a shower stall an old needle just a thorn don't touch it it
won't hurt you to look object without girl
attached no death in the thing in the walls no bleed into mattress and hair
the number of otherwise ordinary men is a phrase but that one shoe size 5 still a
good shoe a girl this dangling size D bra worn by somebody
an object the girl an object Brooke Vanessa Darylneisha Angelica Morgan Joshua
Emely Eric Drixy Yessica Leojandro Gabriel Fatima Unidentified Missing Minor