Panama Memories

the young Panamanian girl
sitting alongside her sister
in slip and bare feet
reading a comic book
and chewing on bubble gum
at a brothel called the
Teenage Club
waiting for the first
GI's to arrive
six girls lined-up
like bowling pins
rooted to their chairs
with zombie like stares
doing a woman's thing
inside a child's body

***This poem was first published by Editions Microbe in Belgium