I'm scared."
"Hush baby
I'm here
Always."
"Mommy
Do you think
We'll disappear
Like Jenn
And her family did?"
"Sweetie
I don't know."
"Mommy
Someone is breaking
Our windows."
"Come here
We must move
To our hiding spot
Pumpkin."
* * *
Corporal A
And your squad
Take the front.
While
Corporal B
And your men
Take the back.
* * *
"Kevin Jonathan Rhys
AKA
Camilla Rhys.
You've been convicted
Of violating
The "Tranny" law
Of 2027.
Hereby
You and any companions
Are sentenced
To death.
* * *
"Sir
Two subjects
Been neutralized."
Therisa © 2017
Author's note: An experiment of using just dialogue, to write this dark dyspotian poem, about a possible future US, where being transgender is, a capital crime, punished by death, for offending person, and those, around them. A future, which I hope, never occurs.
