Breadcrumb #179

SARAH VALEIKA

There were 12 unsubstantiated claims:
my children.
12 unsubstantiated claims on whom
sign here, ma’am,
I have imprinted my own proof and I call out
“See? You see them here,
don’t you?”
because I, too,
am young

my cheeks are flushed as I walk to the
coroner
without blinking, I ask about my own mother
whose body is not fit for me to see, anymore,
and they tell me to “focus on
my children”
who they as yet
deny--
who shall stamp on them that
lovely notice:
Belong to Cara Greenwall? 

The building had no answers for me.

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