Asakiyume mita

I have a writer friend who's had experience with incarceration, and sometimes she puts that in what she writes. She posted this to FB this morning and gave me permission to share. It says everything you need to know about imprisonment, abuse of power, and resistance in under a hundred words. And the way she lived that metaphor...

Flashback- I decorated my cell once with paper butterflies I colored myself. I made them 3D so their wings stuck out and appeared real. A guard walked by and was not impressed by my art, said it was contraband. He told me to take them down. I argued passionately that they were my family and were supporting me because I was in a cocoon myself. He wrote me a ticket. I earned 115 tickets that year.

--Sonia Mendez

Earn your tickets, everyone.