5.13.2015

they locked us in

for the first two

weeks

then out into the

big yard

for first.

stand in the group

don’t be alone,

until

the one on my left

reaches to

stab

the one on my right

downing

me

and the catwalk

guard shoots

him.

with a dead man

on either side

of me,

let me out now

and I will

never

do another bad

thing again

in my whole

life.

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**San Quentin prison 1966

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