Day in Day out
The minute you are handcuffed, you cease to think.
Time passes. You don't know how much time, because it would fill you with desperation to know how little time has passed. You live for the moment you are awakened to eat. At some moment, you are awakened and shuffled into the
shower. You are handed a towel. But before that, the next girl in line has appraised your body, says she should recruit you. You are bashful, yet thankful for the attention.
You are shuffled back to your cell. You hear names being called. Girls you know arrived after you. You don't hear yours. You wonder about that one phone call you get to make. You will ask the guard the next time she slides the opening at the the top of your door to drop the food off. You wake up to hear the grate slide open and you jump off your bunk and run to the door, but you're too late, she's already gone until God knows when.
You gobble down the food, but you're still hungry. You notice your cellie hasn't eaten all her sandwich. You ask, "Hey, you gonna eat that?". She says you can have it, as she's falling back asleep in that stupor induced by the meds they give at least 80 percent of the girls here that are heroin addicts, but not You wonder if you should've just lied to them at intake as the guards dole out the little pulls that knock out most of your fellow inmates into a l
You gobble down the food, but you're still hungry. You notice your cellie hasn't eaten all her sandwich. You ask, "Hey, you gonna eat that?". She says you can have it, as she's falling back asleep in that stupor induced by the meds they give at least 80 percent of the girls here that are heroin addicts, but not you. You wonder if you should've just lied to them at intake as the guards dole out the little pulls that knock out most of your fellow inmates into a seemingly blissful sleep as you struggle to quiet your brain and not NOT think about the outside.
The grate slides open again and you manage to rush out, "Can I get an extra sandwich?". And until the blessed day they finally call your name and say"Court", all you look forward to is food and then sleep, food and then sleep.