Notes from Exile: Rehabilitation

Log/Verse: daily reflections from prison, written every morning at my bunk. Part poem, part log book.

As a follow-up to Justice Notes on False Hope, this verse was written inside—surrounded by programs, postings, and promises that rarely reach the place where real change begins. Prison offers structure and rhetoric in abundance; what it leaves untouched is the quiet, solitary work of reckoning with oneself. This piece reflects that gap.

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REHABILITATION (written while incarcerated)

More fluff than
substance.

Bulletin boards full
of promising
titles:

Programs for this
Opportunities for that
Re-entry Preparation
Resume Building
Jobs for Felons.

Networks galore,
but
none of it
real.

The solitary task of healing
the soul—
No program for
that.

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For readers interested in longer reflections on justice, incarceration, and exile, my essays are linked here at Minutes Before Six..

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