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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
History That’s Not Taught in School
Charles E. Robinson28727Box 1)49Attica, NY 114.011I’ve heard tell that the song is quite accurate, and that Hitler really did only have one ball. Obviously it was enough to keep… More
Brown Grave, And Me
Phillip James Roberson(pen name: Kamara Mtengenzaji)Box No. B-27585Represa, CA 95671 The First time I ever saw Brown Gravy was back in the Summer of 1958. I was in the Los… More
The Attitudes of Jazz
In the year 1619 the lively musical spirits of West Africa, the poetic chants of ritual dancers, the rhythmic beats of talking tom-toms were all the cultural expressions of… More
Where do Popsickles Go When Dey Die?
(where do popsickles go when dey die?)Or/De SunflowerOnce dere was a small-town Girl.Who used to run barefoot’ddown shoe-beaten pathsDiggin her toes into warm moist’d sandup ‘n down country roads…smilin… More
After Four Walls or Learning to Walk
Mr. James Henry Cowan84804PO Box 97McAlester, OK 74501Are you doing something which may result in your being imprisoned? Are you considering doing something which may result in your being… More
The Combination of Two Worlds
Larry G. BozemanB.C.F. Route 2Bland, VA 24315The beginning of time became a reality when man realized he was the most superior being, nevertheless this man found distinction between himself… More
A Better Way
“A NATION THAT CANNOT APPLY NEW REMEDIES MUST EXPECT NEW EVILS” - Sir Francis BaconCan prisons be abolished? Not yet. There are still offenders in our prison system that… More
Water Water Water Wind Water
under our floors filtered wooden stars / towels and glass gasoline coffins / the skin of trees and jalopy tires fish More
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