Destinni Mardesich
Collapses
I live, unloving . . .
A tangible ghost
In every exhalation
life releases
running from
the cage that holds
a tortured soul
I wither
and when nothing
remains inside
will the bars collapse
And still
I won’t be freed
because
I’ll have died there
so long before
8-30-98
Destinni Mardesich is a twenty-nine-year-old
serving a life sentence at the Central
California Women’s Facility. She
has been incarcerated since the age of
sixteen.
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