panoramic malevolence
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…
Looking Back-in
The saddest thing is making plans far down the road at a date where you’ll…
Pressure
Ran from too many lectures and pressures, back pressed to the fire exit doors Jump…
You Don’t Know How I Feel
You don’t know how I feeel …inside you don’t know how I feel …inside you…
E=MC^2
Life is your economy fueled by energy, empathy and economics on this journey the car…
Societal Farmers
Take a look at who you process those innocent kids thrusted into statistics poverty and…
Chained Change
Prison is a unique walk that is, if you’re looking to grow and mature because…
Black Pandemic
Promises “progress” poverty public policies politicians profiteering police prosecutor prison parole and presidents(dead or alive)
So smart I’m Stupid
Too smart for my own good too smart to do no good but too smart…
Uneven Measure
I have a question why when our public servants make mistakes they are able to…
Better if I Say it
Gotta get used to talking about myself if I want the world to know me…
Prison Made
Punish me, if I succumb to the pain you impose on me and have the…
Stepped on
How much indignities must I suffer how many insults must I bear how long shall…
No middle
I only feel when I’m threatened or stressed I have to go thru something to…
Psychos Therapy
Psychotherapists should look to set up in prisons if they really wanna make a difference…
Grew up, I’m-prisoned
I grew up mother incarcerated father deceased I grew up as a foster child and…
Realest Shadows
Contemplating my existence has me feeling like Plato in constant physical meditation and application seeing…
Amygdala, Prefrontal Cortex Wars
I’m overly stimulated yet numb if I get overstimulated, I’m numb prefer to be over…
Errday my birthday
I die so much daily living to reflect on the happening the next day surprised…
Entrapped
There’s never enough timewhen time is all you needthinking back,time and time againI’ve noticed,that time…
You’re smarter than this
“You know you better, you’re smarter than thisyou have so much potential, but you harbor…
Rewarded Punishers
Imprison me and it’s a political and capitalistic win-win Prepackaged, a voteless tax write off…
Everyone is a Felon
Either in conscience or act. The only line of difference is my color. Every so…
Cop Out
We’re not taught nor encouraged to trust legal figures they do more harm than help…
What have you done for me lately
So I’ve noticed more police campaigns and commercials advertising what they do for us now…
Take my Place
I’m not everything you want me to be but this is my lifethis is not…
High Horse
You put me down looked down upon me saying, my place was down well I…
Here-US
Nebraska doesn’t hear us or they just don’t care and no one outside of Nebraska,…
Everyday C.O.
C.O.’s are average any day people. When handling prisoners, I would think there should a…
Blasé
Sky is blue everything black and white I am grey…or gray
Paint Poems
I paint moments and put them in poetrycuz if I rapped it most would attack…
Ever Since
Ever sinceevidenceI’ve beenpinnedpent upin the penwith a penI wrote painI write painI right painI’ve caused,I’ve…
Pros’ Poems
Don’t walk away from medon’t build a fortressand forestour fortuneforcingour forfeitforgive me for myinformal forumsforages…
Fight or Flight Fright Night
You fight or flight change I fight or flight for change Though my fright of…
puh, puh, bullshit! (bless me)
Policies politicians police pulllllllllease! sounds like target practice to me
Blood
I pray..I stray..eyes glazed..crrrrryyyy babypupils, diiiiiiii-latedhe-look-de-hyyyyy-drated, she-look-de-hyyyyy-dratedblood peaking…I see,.. bloooood seeping open, blooood seeping o-penblood…
This could be the Beginning
This could be the beginning of something greatereverything else…save it for laterI am riding giveabeats…
paradox
dear world, I’ve changed I’m a black man leaving prison soon to a virus pandemic…
glossed over
amongst your personal sacrificesI neglected to notice your gender and cultural crisesthe weight of being…
loss can’t be found
life found me on the edge where gravity had tried to push methe fingers of…
my proactiv method
What are we trying to do right? If we are activists, then what are we…
i want and so what
Move is this great goal I want to achieve, but only to connect, I genuinely…
new school
prisons are the new school’s, new schoolsnot education like they intended of coursekind of reward…
destined to fail
what does hope mean, when choices are more limited than your options? my friend sees…
new social no-no’s
I walk into the cafeteria hereand although we’re all supposed to have our masks onwe…
who feels it worse
I wonderon whom is it harderwhen you watch people leavewhile you stay in prisonthen you…
reliving the worst
my friend’s mom recently was found unresponsiveshe had a heart attackhe voiced this to me…
connectedly disconnected
I think I’m starting to feel this ‘time’ more nowthan I have in a while,it’s…
COVID’s internal impact
I’ve observed that here in prison, we’re more restlesswe feel more neglected and forgottennow that…
where have the years gone
where did the years gowhere have they taken mein what reality has these years placed…
covid woes
sadness reigning on a raining daybut you say you’re ‘A OK’resilience steals the pain awayconcealing…
cut thin
I cut myselfand watched my flesh-this temporary shell to which my spirit hides within-break apartto…
Happy Birthday Josiah
Happy Birthday JosiahI remember your beautiful image vividly the day of your birthplace JosiahI don’t…
programmed to fail
we live with these statisticsalive the moment we’re bornwe live bybelieveand we succumb to these…
2-23 to 5-8
in the midst of social distancing where you can’t get as close as a hand…
Days of Daze
Power over principleyet the principle,is powereducating lessindoctrinating morephilosophy is challengedwhy ask questions when answers are…
“when life imprisons you… feel free”
I can never be a kid againif you keep being so serious-and we can never…
Out and In
If I’m looking outward than I won’t see inwardI can not look inwardthe skin of…
Flight
To fallis to flyto flyis to fallfor without oneoneness is losttherefore,this in betweenthat we navigateis…
Illusion of Conformity
Been lonely for so longthough so afraid to stay lonelyafraid of companyafraid of companionsI need…
Twilight
Twilightluminescent sparks rekindleas if a fire has been litembers shimmer,and glow like flecks of goldembroidered…
solitary mind. set
Being comfortable with quiet seems naturalthis c.o. can’t sit still, he can’t keep quiethe keeps…
Some inside scripts
It’s about positioning yourself if they ain’t on what u on, cut your hours short…
I don’t wanna exist
I don’t wanna existI wanna liveif I can not livethen let me dieI rather diewhen…
safe distance
I don’t feel you’ll know me, if I ever tell you I don’t believe I’ll…
judged
I need a jury but not of my peers I have no peers you see…
know me
I seek to decrease prejudice and increase understanding please stop judging without knowing because I’m…
in denial
Prison is walking inside of the world, barely making it back out with a story…
I don’t look beneath me like a giant
I don’t look beneath me like a giantleave me to my own devicesI see poltergeistsand…
Cast Away
Preyed upon by light I pray for darkness a grim body cast shielding my skin…
mirrored mayhem
No government namesonly numbers and monikersswastikasand other affiliated insigniascartel and mafiaillegal immigrantsnon English speakersnumbering minorities…
“resistance”
I don’t know if changing fully is possible in prisonmaybe changing your prisonescaping the one…
all by myself
eh mhm?!?is this mic on?anyone hear me?helloooo?I feel that fallen tree in the forestdoes anyone,anyone…
I’m more than I been thru
Lose a lotbruised a lotabused a lotused a lotmoved a lotlocked in rooms a lotyouth…
Sleeping Away
Sleep is like treading the darkest abyss where shadows have bodies, and nightmares exist feeling…
Your Way
You never know what ain’t enough, til it ain’t enough you never know that pain…
Looking Down
Damn… it’s a sad life for a caterpillar I wonder what he sees when he…