The Girls - Terry Ebinger

[Lawrence Robinson]

The Girls

I can’t stop
thinking
about the girls

the raped girls
the trafficked girls
the abducted girls
the bombed girls
the impregnated girls
the mutilated girls
the married at ten girls
the schoolgirls
the lost girls

the daughters
the sisters
the cousins
the best friends

the beloved girls
the beautiful girls
the precious girls
the gone girls

disposable
devalued
despised

decimated
demolished
exterminated
extinguished

damaged collateral

I can’t stop 
thinking
about the girls

	- Terry Ebinger