conquistadora

"here; he calls you monster", he sings, pause, for effect, & to spit "in hell they'll call you daughter" she rolls her shoulders & bares her teeth to smile she isn't like her brothers she is the center of her own universe and other things are lines jutting out of her chest they make tangles but she brushes them off with her small hands & bares her teeth to smile shes so much longer than she was now that she's come back she left barefoot in regulation pajamas the flannel made sweat trick down from the back of her knees and she blistered her feet she bangs her heel against the wall and hunches her shoulders the bus smelled l