a warm spring satrday 
new york
march 25
1911


cecilia walker and
jennie franco, just 16
rushed up to th 11th flor
nearly late for thr job

as dressmakrs for th
triangle shirtwaist factry
they trudgd thru th day
waitng for a nite out 
just th girls

almos quittng time 
someone shouted fire
rags frm th cutting tables 

nowhere down
exits locked cuz
they thot we were 
stealing things

girls stood on windowsils 
tearing their hair in handfuls
then they jumped

into
piles of dead

cecilia looked around 
callng to jen 
but she had alredy gone