panoramic malevolence
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…
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…