Another excerpt from my prison journal, where the hope of release was pursued through every statute, rumor, and imagined legal remedy.
RELEASE
Two or three always
huddling in the
halls.
Conspiring to conspire
their early
release.
2255(d), 3582(c), and
2241(d)—or is it
(e)?
They line up behind the
machine, a kind
of tabernacle of
legalese.
And inside the puzzling
fonts and files,
the legal magic we
desperately
pursue.
Forever hopeful for
the perfect
brew.
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