Allegedly

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Hard to celebrate the day you were born when everybody seems to wish you were never born at all.

Figures of speech are luxuries convicted murderers are not allowed to have.

“What does it mean when you love and hate someone at the same time?” I ask. He laughs. “It means they family.”

We requested the official documentation and reports from her original diagnoses, but no one could provide the information. This led us to question whether she was ever tested at all.

“What yuh may or may not’ve done is not di definition of who yuh really are.”