My Imagined Past-Self

by M. James Cooper 

I would have jumped ship. 

I would have run to somewhere and away from here. 

I would have fought for the freeing of my physical and spiritual self. 

I would have planned the escape, chopped and burned and shown them a teaching so brutal and so raw; a terror so oppressed it had to show its teeth in time.

Truth is I am not sure what I would have done because that past is not fully my own. 

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