An intimate first person non-fiction storytelling experience about incarceration in the United States.
Prison can seem like the end of the world. One moment you are free the next thrown into twilight purgatory where insanity is the norm and the norm drives men insane.
In my decades on the inside, I have learned some truths.
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Hi everyone, I just feel like talking today. A lot has been on my mind, and it has weighed me down to the point where I have felt out of my zone. Sometimes in prison, there is nothing but your own thoughts to ponder, and this isn’t a good thing — not ever.
My days are strictly regimented. Oh, not because of ‘The Man’, but by choice. I have a day to day routine as most imprisoned souls do, and when it gets disrupted, everything goes to hell. Focusing on my mental chatter is surefire way to find myself there.
Six years ago, I started this blog.
If I could experience the outside world, where through my pen I break free from the bondage of prison, it would all be worth it, I had thought.
For decades, I have trekked through the desert known as American corrections, where justice is mirage and corruption the only oasis.
Think about the past 31 years of your life.
That’s 31 blazing summers where fireflies danced through twilight evenings and crickets fiddled through the night. Camp outs, cookouts, and 31 Christmases that gifted way to hopeful new years.
I recently started my 31st year in prison.
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When I think of music and prison in the same sentence, songs I know by heart echo through my mind. My journey through the abyss of American Corrections can best be told through song.
Music exposes the soft underbelly of the prison beast. I’ve suckled from its bosom rhythm and memories with the promise of a joyful future that for decades has been the province of my dreams.
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