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Theorizing-How to Kill

March 23, 2021 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

how can you kill
what does not die?
kill their memory
of eternity
of what life is
so death replaces the blank
now blanketing life
wherefore beings only live on in death,
in memory,
therefore, we are dying to live
all the while living in fear,
never truly living at all
because the fall of memory
the preeminence of fear
has created a reality of-
infinite mortals,
calcified spirits,
forgotten souls,
and mournful hearts
now life, is the limbo
and survival, is “mortal combat”
with death being the only crossing
of fear into fate, or fog
and all seeming lost
because the mind and its memory is
fatality!

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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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