Beauty Is Sold by Jasen Sousa

Beauty Is Sold

With at least ten years of abuse under

her belt, I don’t know if her mind will ever

be hers again.  She fights to regain all

that she ran away from, she wants to be

that little girl she never came to

appreciate.  I knew that little girl,

and I do not recognize this woman

whose beauty is now sold in a dope sack,

squeezed into a syringe, and shot into

abandoned veins tagged with drug dealer’s names.

First Published

in

Somewhere Lost

Copyright © 2011 by Jasen Sousa

Copyright © All Rights Reserved by J-Rock Publishing

Library of Congress

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ISBN  978-0-9714926-7-7