Mi Libro Gore

Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Inside: missing flyers the size of my palm. Like a clone searching for her original, I paste the negative of each girl’s face in a blank book.

Y o u   a r e   n o t   y o u r   d e a t h.

 

Y          ¿How long has she been dead?          Y

o              ¿Donde están sus dientes?              o

u           ¿Do you recognize her shoes?           u

          ¿Tienes la misma camisa?          

a               ¿Missing, for how long?                a

r                         ¿Tiene hijos?                        r

e                 ¿Was she a prostitute?                 e

          ¿Vive en Anapra?          

n          ¿Why cut under each breast?           n

o                ¿Esta ropa no le vale?                 o

t            ¿Will you get the rape kit?             t

          ¿De donde vienen tantas moscas?           

t          ¿Rocks in the vaginal cavity?           h

h              ¿Mordidas por los oidos?             e

i              ¿More hair 300 ft. away?              r

s                 ¿Una barra en la boca?                

              ¿Puta written in blood?           

d                    ¿Por sus piernas?                     d

e                   ¿Whose daughter?                    e

a                 ¿De quien es mujer?                  a

t           ¿De donde son estas esposas?            t

h           ¿How should I bag her body?           h

 

Y o u   a r e   n o t   d e a d.

 

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