All of that because a group of people didn’t want to work, so they violently inserted trauma into other people’s lives…and then told their children and the world that those people deserved it. It was illegal for Frances to write. It was illegal for her to put bear witness to the horrors and write that into eternity. She did it anyway. If you are a parent, have a parent, know a parent, and can’t empathize with this woman…interrogate that (also seek help because wtf). #poetry #empathy #humanity #resistence