Notes from Exile: The Community

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

Another excerpt from my prison journal, written while I was still incarcerated

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THE COMMUNITY

Ours is a community

of lonesome

souls.

Collectively the bonds

are razor

thin,

and razor

ready.

Our only real bond,

the shakels we

share,

and the growing daily

resentment of the

staff that rule

us.

But sudden uprisings of

little things:

the jump in line,

a light turned on,

confirm the fragile

nature of our

peace,

and it’s pretentious

thread.

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