Lend Us Your Ears Tax-Payers

Beloved Readers:Peering about this functionally effective concentration camp of Humanity, at the gigantic evils perpetrated against us/you as a people, A tax-paying people, by the designers of Penal Habitations… More

Rest Home

each morning is the same they wake her she risks a stretch and forecasts rain it is routine she is readied for the wait More

Night Music

Night MusicTonight in Cellblock Threesomeone is playing Mozart.Sweeter than tangerines the music risesabove the sound of all four showersby the guard stationIt is summer at the end of a… More

Pidgin

Patrick O’Neil30832-ABox CWaupun, WI 53963 PidginAgainst the patterned vision I bendstretchLeaning to watchA feathery bird come to mock my untidy cage.Scoot-walking along a windowsill about ten feet away,making strange vanishing… More

Turmoil

Richard Knox139-896PO Box 69London, OH 43140TurmoilAs I sit within my cell…within the mess I’ve madeI sense another self inside amused at dreams mislaidDreams and plans—and intentions gone astrayAnd I… More

Follow Rozewicz

Follow Różewicz". . . at twenty-fourled to slaughter,"he recites, smokes his thick cigarettes,his tenor voice betrays him, his enduranceall these years, he utters so many thingsabout days gone and… More

June Journals 6-25-88

The check I bounced was for $208. My buddy, Alfonso S., did the design and layout for Victor Martinez’s first book, Wrecking Them Back. I feel like telling Vic… More