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Poetry and Prose by Russell Wardlow

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abandonment issues

March 13, 2020 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

bandoned with issues
trying to abandon my issues
because I have abandonment issues
I figured you’d leave
or maybe I pushed you
because my fear of being Abandoned,
is The issue

Filed Under: Trauma

safe distance

March 12, 2020 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

I don’t feel you’ll know me,
if I ever tell you
I don’t believe I’ll ever tell you,
what you’ll never get
the more you know,
the less of me you’ll want
the less you have,
the more secrets I can keep
because telling everything,
doesn’t give you everything
and knowing everything,
will keep you from wanting everything
though you hate the distance between us,
at least, it conceals the difference within us
just keep enough distance between us,
because there’s too much different, between us

Filed Under: Inside, Love, Trauma

You’ll need more

March 11, 2020 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

When you sleep
I hope u sleeping with the memory of me
if you peep
I hope you thinking of the energy I bring
when you sneeze
I hope you counting every blessing on your sleeve
because you’ll need more than hope
when life and love brings you to your knees

Filed Under: Love, Spirit

judged

March 10, 2020 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

I need a jury
but not of my peers
I have no peers
you see their appearance?
how does it appear?
how does it compare?
do they see the mirror?
do they see I’m rare?
can’t they see their rear?!
while they judging my past!
judging my path!
they don’t know the half!
divided by half,
well, then maybe perhaps?
but fear overlaps
just get off of my back!

Filed Under: Culture, Inside, Mercy

civilized savages

March 9, 2020 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

Let’s make civility a law
then claim ourselves a civilized country
then over police our uncivilized communities
then send them back out into a cultural civil war
and amongst the social savagery, tell them to embody civil obedience
then, like any ‘civilized’ people
discard them soon as they corrupt your values of civility
after all, its your civic duty
holding certain civilians,
to higher standards civilly
besides, in this civilization
punishment is the prime nature of being civil

Filed Under: Culture, Mercy

contradictive natures

March 8, 2020 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

let’s build prisons to enhance our humanity
let’s welcome a flowers doom by presenting it romantically
let’s diagnose the whole world and ignore our own insanity
let’s change ourselves in a mirror and deny our own vanity
let’s poison ourselves with vaccines, and let the poor suffer
let’s choose instant gratification while we endanger our reproductions
let’s be counter-intuitive and counterproductive
let’s keep building on this world while becoming more self-destructive…

Filed Under: Culture

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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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