Alice Gavin

A l i c e   G a v i n

Rikers

If you cross over the bridge, and through the gates, and walk down the hallway, where the blue paint is chipping and water leaks from the ceiling, and walk past the guards, slumped in their chairs, and into the building with no windows, and if you pass by the nurse’s office, and the social workers, and there you find a bare room just like the others, with hard plastic chairs, and there is a faded sign saying chapel, you may be astonished to find two people there, very much in love, and marrying each other.

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