panoramic malevolence
Misguided Astronautical Musings
unsuccessfully I chased you to Moon and back traversing zero gravity exploring parts unknown rationalizing…
Mental Mishaps
for it is that I tell my mind how much it knows and that I…
And You too, Touche
those imprisoning the prisoners unknowingly imprisoned by the very premise and paradigm of the prison…
Where am I?
today I looked from my top bunk and saw my position an overhead lay out…
A Reflective Letter Sent to a Friend
hmm I wonder if I have to say this or is everything existential and essential…
Mental Clockwork
time has a mind of its own or the mind has a time of its…
Crazy Patience
I’m told to be patient there is a mastery to be claimed hence but what…
Go Figure
I’ve been ready ready to die ready to die all my life now that I’m…
Lived Genius
you have letters, but I have numbers after my name I have all the experience…
If a Prisoner was a Politician
I recently heard a prisoner say, “we invest in weapons of mass destruction but not…
I know I am, but so are You
institutionalization is conformity systems indoctrinate institutions institutions administer people systems classify organizations and organisms people…
Even in Prison there is a Circle of Life
I watch fat birds flying free in my misery getting full from food we refuse…
What’s Being Learned From and Who is Considered the Learned?
I heard from a fellow convict: “history is about knowing and understanding what happened, why…
More What’s Being Learned From and Who is Considered the Learned?
Mundane Reflections, Still Learning
a black man walks into a stall in prison to urinate, he closes his eyes…
Figure of Speech (Free-verse)
I am the definition of an acrobatic radical versatile as my vertebrae vertical verses reverse…
Prison, is a Place for Ghosts?!
pt. 1 prison is a place I go to often in my mind jogged in…
Oh, the Irony
recreating myself into another superficiality to define my being in your superficial reality who am…
Subjects of Subjugating Subjectives and Sublimation
how selfish would it be if I were to admit a blasphemous thing those two…
I See People
I’ve seen people, come to prison with violent crimes and leave with addictions I’ve seen…
Global Tel-Missing-Link
building connections on a payphone when the time is limited tentative and expensive pretending with…
Confined Romantic
romantic fantasies help me sway and fade out it’d be a Cinderella story if I…
I Got a Story to Tell
to the performance stage, from a prison cell I got a story to tell chaos…
Damnit
the man got me by the balls the devil got me by the ankles I…
Freedomite
I didn’t get sentenced to give away all these years to give a damn about…
Inside Interference
unbeknownst all we have been doing, is getting in our own way, then blaming something,…
Socio-Structural Derivatives
there is parity here so much so in that it is in all actuality imparity.…
And it Goes On
here we go again anger and fear the most potent concoction here it’s too common…
When I Couldn’t See, Myself
to every teacher you reached me and I ask your forgiveness I didn’t know how…
Trapped
think they understand you not realizing your actions results from how they demand you stereotypes…
Thing Chasing
lost myself losing things lost things lose people people lose things loss seems like self-lost…
If I Must be Black, Let Me be Black in Peace
do you hear me? let me be black in peace! your way is not, interrupted…
Theory of New Growth
when you have new growth and you grow in a place outside which you first…
My Mama Veered Left, but We ALL-RIGHT
I just found out… before my mom went back to jail she started using again…
The Wisdom, Before the Fool
to know what you are you must see something alike to know who you are…
Shh, for Our Sake, or Mine
for I have a secret, I can’t tell. heavy is the heart, it dwells. Crack!…
Where Will You Be?
when I am free where will you be? where will you be, when I am…
Shelled
I’m simply a mollusk too soft for this world so I’ve grown a hard shell…
Expendable
is not life worth living for? then why hast thou punished my effort fore I…
Mental Warfare
I ran into a barrier of some sort falling down from the brunt impact surprise…
High Thoughts
to a person in prison. Let’s say me. Viewing a person who thinks highly of…
Flame Thrower
celly eh mhm… SHUT THE FUCK UP! damn I can’t have any peace and quiet…
No Fragility
I made my heart a fortress my man made mind a forest pondering my fortune…
Just Waiting on You is All
a person died…inside of here he could’ve been saved but the responders…correctional officers were slow…
What The Hell
I almost killed myself blah blah, what the hell I ain’t ask for no one’s…
I See You Mama
I see you mama don’t be led astray by these deceitful people, nor let the…
Reflecting to my Son
reflecting on where has my life gone remembering everything that I ever did wrong sometimes…
Whose Feelings are These?
I don’t know if if if if I have e if I have emo if…
Living Hell
imagine if hell is your worst day repeated over and over and life is a…
Freed
trying to control what you do not understand, it is fear! release me! from Yours…
The Nerve of You
you came to prison to be a leader and a servant and then some combo…
Not as Crazy as I Once was
I know you may think I’m crazy I know this may sound irrational like projected…
Liberating Comforts
today I had a root beer float I tasted freedom yum! what prison when I’m…
Baby Booming Guards
I came in a young man, my eyes still hazy but they opened quickly, becoming…
Stoic Chauvin
mysterious, your last name short for chauvinism stoic and calm, your reserve sure bold and…
I Would Like to Smile
I want to smile in fact I love to smile universe willing, I think I…
see no, speak no, Here No-detour
dear, ears ears here here- here ears hear hear fears fears near near peers peers…
NO joke
“I thought… “I thought… “I thought… “I thought… but Mr. Officer your assumptions are killing…
Phantoms of Democracy
invisible attacker visible wounds invisible pain visible reactions invisible ailment visible symptoms invisible torment visible…
Rainy Wait
in the rain we wait not for the seasons coming growth but for commissary, prison…
Dear Correctional Officer
Dear Correctional Officer hmm well here we go again I guess I’m just an unprivileged…
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
through every cheer and jeer feet don’t fail me now, I can see the end…
Can I Live?
Sarah Grimke said, I ask no favor for my sex, all I ask from our…
Stimulus Call
stimulus checks are arriving for us inside follow the money and you’ll often see what…
Along Came a Spider
there once was a spider that came out the blue crawled from out of my…
Treasure Island
there are metal detectors here searching for lost and unseen treasures the correctional officers get…
Bugs Bunny
there’s this bunny the bunny visits me outside of my window every night I haven’t…
Less than Self-less
I’m not myself I am not ‘my’ self I am another self- an ‘other’ self…
These Doors Haunt Me
prison is so. damn. traumatizing! I mean the sounds are so blunt, sharp, and sudden…
What Type of Time You On?!
this is the dark, where they hide light protect your heart, hind, and blindside because…
In My Void
in my void, I created you, in my absence I re-created my void and now…
More Than a Call
I can only image how ordinary it must have felt for you getting on the…
Not just a Game?
he just won $50,000! that takes him to over $200,000 in earnings each slip up,…
This Shit Humiliating
in prison we have few but distinctive privacies all which we behold and apprise the…
My Cellmate is the Psychopath in Me
he mirrors the darkness in me thoughts I think and quell and feelings I stifle,…
Safe and Soundless
quiet as kept what’s quiet, is kept my quiet unkept I require a breath (exhale)…
no mea culpa
contrary to public preference and expectations I’m not sorry for the laws I disobeyed ONLY…
Plans Forwarded, Moved Backwards
I have to unlearn, what I unlearned and re-learn, what I tried forgetting and then…
Lethal Injection
black people don’t have the best history in America… well there’s more to this statement,…
Home is Where I Had to Make
I feel the beast calling to me consuming me back into her belly and it…
Unrecognizable
they are dead what they once were they are no longer so tell me if…
Worth More Alive than Dead, but Death Costs Less
People,… Peeeeople, I was once knew as warriors, are now dead…dead inside, and dead outside,…
Smokers Lane
I sleep here so I can’t not notice it surrounds me and to be aware,…
Bedrock
this damn bedrocks and not like the cradle I never had it shakes squeaks and…
WriteOrDie
writing prose poems sleeplessly 2:44 a.m. hyper-driven send.
Aiming from the Ground (Lyrics)
(chorus/hook): I been 100 I keep it 100 I’m going a hunned I move like…
States of Mind
I can’t tell my state of mind when I write I have so many states…
Humpty Dumpty (Lyrics)
(poetically rapped free verse:) umm, attention on the mic is everything alright? it’s dark, I…
Missing Person
misled misused mistaken misunderstood misperceived misjudged misnamed misheard missing
Hamster Wheel
he walks up and down stairs they walk round and round the track he paces…
The 13th Illusion
Emancipation is just etiquette, it armed the hatred swarmed more harm for the hated outdoing…
Late Night Riffs
delusions of a new life cruising in the moon light communing ’til the mood right…
Road Trip
you see me but you don’t see me you hear me but you don’t hear…
Freedom Writer
often we do the things we have yet to do what started off in our…
Remember My Place
remember my place where I’ve been placed its lack of, yet ever opening space a…
Miserable Company
we came together us three, and made one one body of, shock shame and shackles-…
Sleepless
hurt shame embarrassed guilt lonely hurt suffering voided hollowed angry crowded overwhelmed fallen I’m just…
I Need a Coat
creating ties to a tie only makes a knot so, ‘to be or not..’ is…
Gripping the Lines
there’s a line everywhere there are lines lines that form lines that border and lines…