panoramic malevolence
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…
Travesty/ Tragedy
travesty tragedy tracking me trapping me cornered into savagery tortured by my casualties forces formed…
Mindstate
when confined hard to keep the mind- straight, down near a decade, finally able to…
I Am U
I am black, I am white, I am brown, I am yellow, I am mixed,…
This Sys-tem
This sys-tem is like a cyst this sys-tem is a stem of oppression and isms…
Concentration Camps
Capitalism won’t defund prisons so make a labor class of it’s citizens, voting rights and…
Projection Deflection
If a person stands in their truth, they are seeking attention. If self diagnosed, they…
Dear Parole Board
Dear Parole Board I wasn’t supposed to be here Do you know the dark I…
Symbliminal Messaging
Removing symbols aren’t the solution but in a society of symbolism and their creeds idolization…
Riding the Emotional Hump
I’m inconsistent insufferable overbearing and insensitive at times I say I’m passionate but I may…
Rapped Tight Prose Verse
I’m tired of living this life I’m tired of living this life I had to…
Neurotic
I do NOT have it all together. I don’t know why nobody gets that. I’ve…
Friendliest Foes
Agreement often times creates ignorance and blindness it’s in the face of opposition that we…
Our state- ran by brilliant billionaires
Uh we have the most billionaires per capita in the U.S. here in Nebraska. Pete…
Unheralded Nebraska Corrections
Everyone flies over walks past or stops by this middle America Nebraska our crime lowered…
Drugged
Drugs or die do drugs or die doing drugs cuz I wanna die doing drugs…
Avarice Society
Why is it so hard for us to create healthy changes to our perception, thinking…
Contempt Contentment
Right before I enter my room I look into it’s narrow window and it’s small,…
Compiled Compliance
You want me to be myself but more like you, more in the way that…
Fighting Odds
If the faculties I possess, which help me to identify my emotions and react with…
Peeping Through My Window Part 4
“Peeping through my Window pt 4” I’m a boy. From 2007, I left my group…
Peeping Through My Window Part 3
“Peeping thru my Window pt 3” I’m a boy. Relationships, where do I even start…
Peeping Through My Window Part 2
“Peeping through my Window pt 2” I’m a boy. We all gotta grow up sometime…
Peeping Through My Window Part 1
“Peeping through my Window Pt 1” I’m a boy. We have this patriarchal society that…