#NaPoWriMo18: Day24, An Elegy for the 'Feeble-minded'
Image by M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, SUNY (via NPR’s Hidden Brain Podcast), for the Day 24 prompt. Inspired by Emma, Carrie and Vivian’s stories. --- They branded them the feeble minded, when all they were were the wronged ones. Once a face begins to fade into the fog of otherness, doubt begins to assail the humanity of the other. We wished we spoke for you when they came - before your lives were stashed behind that cordon of red brick ...