Waiting Room Talks

"I was prostituted"

"I know, I'm sorry. The police will want to hear that."

"It was my roommate. She did it to me."

"I'm sorry."

"They did it on purpose. The homeless shelter. They knew."

"I see."

"I want an abortion pill."

"You'll have to wait for the doctor and talk to them about that."

"Oh.

Can I have something to drink?"

"I'm sorry I can't give you anything to eat or drink. In case surgery is required."

"Oh."

"I can't give you anything to eat but I'm not going to stop you from eating those. That's the doctor's problem."

"The homeless shelter gave me a tent. A tent."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

"They don't care about you unless you have children."

"That's why they put me with my roommate. That's why she prostituted me."

"When you have children they give you food. And instead of a tent you get a house. And warm clothes."

"My mother never left me."

"That's good."

"I lived with my sister but her boyfriend was a pimp."

"I see."

"He prostituted me and she abandoned me."

"I'm sorry to hear that."

"My mother never left me though. I never lose."

"What do you mean?"

"I never lose. I NEVER lose. My mother never left me. But my aunt took me from her and she wouldn't tell her where I was at and so I was alone but I never lose. Never. I'll find my mother."

"I'm sorry."

"My aunt raises my cousins. But I don't trust her with them. She uses them for EBT money."

"That's terrible, I'm sorry."

"She used me for EBT money. And my sister. She feeds them McDonalds while she eats well. McDonalds. She doesn't care about them."

"That's frustrating, I'm sorry to hear that."

"She raised my sister until she moved out with her pimp boyfriend."

"I see."

"I lived with them until he started prostituting me. I left. And the shelter gave me a tent. A tent."

"I'm sorry."

"But now I'm pregnant. And I don't care about it. I'll have it on the streets and kill both of us."

"That's something you'll want to tell the SANe nurse and doctor."

"It's about the babies. That's why they give us houses."

"If we aren't pregnant we get tents. If we are pregnant we get houses. They're farming us."

"They're farming homeless people for babies. They're prostituting them for the children."

"That's why they put me with my roommate. That's what my sister's pimp boyfriend did to me."

"California owns me. They own me. But the homeless shelter owns the children."

"See these crackers? They're made from the baby fetuses."

"After I have mine I'm going to kill us both before its turned into crackers."

"Before my aunt gets it and raises it for EBT money."

"I'm going to go get some water."