Lola Barrington Poems

Author: Megan Falley

In fear of my mother being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
I knew it finally came for you when I got the phone call,
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Author: Mizz Haze

In the year 1815 there were 3 known types of alligator Bait: catfish animal parts and colored children - if you put your ear to the belly of a gator you can hear the muffled screams slave children. Hear them clawing at the rib cage of a monster much bigger than your bodies. But nothing compared to the machine that held their parents slaves. These babies, who were hungover boats and dangled from rope- a fate their parents would know too soon. I imagine their mothers watch invious that their babies may better now know freedom inside the belly of a gator then still trapped in a country that made them slaves.
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