Susan Hawthorne #330 ESMA

today I try to gather words

but it is hard when

Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada

better known as ESMA

includes words like Escuela

school you think learning

when it includes Mecanica

you think okay practical skills

when it includes Armada

you think of a fleet of ships

going into battle

but a very big but

this Escuela is all about torture

it is breaking women and men

so they cannot function

some women are killed twice

it's too hard to explain

but they are

very few escape

some manage to go into exile

most die from broken

hearts and bodies

their veins break open

so few left to speak

at the trials that ensure

their jailers go to prison