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By VC Sit in a cell 24/7/365 and tell me if you can think straight Boxed in/locked in/no family/no friend Just a beginning/no end/can’t breathe/no air Mind gone with the…

Off Course

By AW The slave ship that doesn’t move Nor never ever set sail Motionless is it rooted To the earth with no course The middle passage of the mind The…

Confused!

By AP They say racism is dead, But every day I have a target on my head. Why, when they define the color black or Brown, they align it with…

Surrounded/Rodeado

By LV Surrounded by concrete walls. Surrounded by an immense feeling of solitude. Surrounded by concrete walls that don’t distance me from reality. Surrounded by one-thousand-and-one dreams – that are…

Me and Jim Crow

By PJ Twenty years in ADX.* I’m asked, a lot, one question: How long have you been here? First, let me tell you something I know: (Feared, is the unknown;)…