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Neurotic

November 28, 2020 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

I do NOT have it all together. I don’t know why nobody gets that. I’ve been locked up the better part of a decade, how is that normal to you? So my moods and lows are somehow a surprise. What do you take me for or take this place called prison as?

I am helpless. Too dependent. Trapped.

Emotionally anxious. Guarded and weary. Depressed depressed depressed.

Suppressed, repressed, oppressed.

Overly pressed. Pressed for time. Pressed for change. Pressed for optimism. Pressed buttons.

My every moment is pressurized. I only hold it together for you. Just figured that you’d have figured that by now.

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Prose of a Con is a collection of Russell Wardlow’s prose and poetry written entirely behind bars. Through writings on family, spirituality, freedom, love, justice, redemption, and vulnerability, Russell seeks to show the humanity and hope of individuals like himself who are incarcerated.

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