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Incarcerated Thoughts
Images of mistakes, lost opportunities and hard time written like
paragraphs on inmate faces,
caught up in an economically profitable system, and stripped of
everything, even shoelaces.
Jobs are created in dying counties by the acquisition of someone's poor
farm or range.
Another jail is built almost every five years, because they really don't want felons to change.
Now, the funding is gone for college courses. Tell me, where's the
"real" rehabilitation?
With only cable TV, recreation and no responsibility, jail gives the illusion of a very warped vacation.
You see, this is a major problem, especially when you can't afford a
"good" lawyer for trial.
Shit, I could have been offered a program long ago. Instead, they served
me while the DA just smiled.
This business is designed to keep me discouraged, but it all needed
somewhere to start.
On my part, it was all of my false beliefs. For them, physical and mental
slavery is an art.
To break this cycle I must stop being a part of the problem and use my
wisdom to help the few,
because the truth is, they created our environments and do anything we
allow them to do.
There are way more liquor stores than churches and plenty of jobs that
can't pay the rent,
but they will allow enough guns in to kill ourselves. This American dream
is totally bent.
We, as a whole, must re-learn to sacrifice and struggle if only for the
"big picture" and the cause.
But, once they find out that we've united and stopped committing crimes,
most likely, they'll start to change all the laws.
Why? It's nothing personal. It's just business.
-- Tracy Washington
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