An anonymous tombstone. Silence, always deafening

October 4, 2024 Forbidden holograms of real life

Who weeps for a whore ?

Veronica Baker


An anonymous tombstone. Silence, always deafening

An anonymous tombstone
An anonymous tombstone. Silence, always deafening…

An anonymous tombstone moved to the area of the mass graves.
No one ever goes there to leave a flower or a lamp.

Nor of course to visit it.
An anonymous name, two dates, and a small, cold gray stone.

I never met Kristina.
She fell asleep more than thirty years ago, in the absolute indifference of everyone, in a cold hospital ward.
Life…not life.

That was the first time I saw death.
The indifference.
The injustices.

The diseases.
Before the soul more than the body.

The real marginalization.
The real racism.
A slice of real life that in every way is meant to be told in a certain way.

The fate of life, seen as something you cannot escape.

A white rose, a little prayer.
In the end, just a drop in the ocean.

Because the racism of exclusion comes from everyone.

The sacrosanct indignation of a “normal” girl torn apart by the “monster” she had next to her is a necessary reflex, accompanied by a majority chorus.

On the other hand, when a prostitute dies for the same reason, the mournful counter-song is a feeble breath of a few, the mourning of an inner circle.

A silence that is always deafening.

The media focus exclusively on the identity of the alleged killer, never thinking of her.
The rest is just a dark and morbid sky.
As if a tragic end or a stunted obstacle course were simply the condemnation one owes to a mistake.

Who weeps for a whore ?