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I been so busy with maintaining my existence writing has been receiving my cold shoulder. I gotta pick up the pace my third book won't write itself.

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 -From this cell I have to see, by what I hear.
-So if I mess up this judical this is what I'll see-hear for the next four years.
-The cadence of Correction Officers sometimes lenient sometimes austere.
-"Get ready for chow!" , "Pill call!", "Put your I.D.s in your windows!" & "Count time means quite time up in here!"
-The chitter chatter of these barbaric buffoons i mean these inmates makes me ponder what happened to my peers.
-All day it sounds like someone has taken our language & sheared it with a pair sheares from Sears.
-This is what makes my insides sear.
-"Mo betta" "Foots instead of feet" "Moneys" "Worstest" "Tooths" "Gooses" "Mouses" "Da land" these words are doing damage to my ears.
-Listen I walk around with my heart in my sleeve so my emotions should come across very sheer.
-Yes I am venting & that's so I dont do anything that'll take me out my sphere.
-Back in the day slaves would sing, "Wade in the water, wade in the water children, wade in the water, somethings gonna trouble the water." Now a days somebody plays the beat engineer.
-As, "If I dont do nothing Imma ball, I'm countin' all day like a clock on a wall, so go & get your money lil duffle bag boy." sounds as if it's coming fron an auctioneer.
-Walkie talkies, keys & the opening & closing of doors sound off as a C.O. nears.
-The sound of fellow inmates pissing, flushing toilets, slapping spades & counting push-ups makes me sneer.
-After dinner there's the sound of Ramen Noodles being thrown to the ground because breakin' makes it premier.
-At 3:00 am there's the shuffle of shower shoes on my tier.
-Next the sound of shower water & that makes me wanna pound those dudes into tears.
-It's hard enough just falling asleep so my temper percolates when my sleep & I are interfered.
-Then there's the stories of: murders, robberies, pagan pedafellia, rape, homosexualty & distrbution of drugs that terminate mankind plus all these crimes come with pack deal that is still to severe.
-Truth?......I'm living a nightmere.
-And this is a rocky road that I must persevere.
-Plus since I can't mess up my judical this mess I gotta veer & steer clear.
-Or for the next for years.
-This is what I'll see.
-By what I hear.

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