An Essay in Acrostic: P.O.L.I.C.E.
“They tell us we have the right to take up / space. But they come in armor and shields / that say otherwise.”
10 posts in ‘poetry’
“They tell us we have the right to take up / space. But they come in armor and shields / that say otherwise.”
I had one / wish it will be I wish I can / get out of this cuz this is / a suffering pain time I’m doing
“Shower Call Down Below” & “29 L-Building”
I’m eligible to smoke til I fall clapping my / Hands and feet all the same time / Laffing at all this shit.
Work from poets incarcerated in Parchman’s Unit 29
“Crying Johnny,” “Officer Judy Gives Instructions to the Lock Down Inmates,” & “Holiday Special Meal”
“I applaud, your / Frankenstein’s monster, forevermore.”
“What does it mean to be an / incarcerated poet?”
“The cotton field / is replaced by walls of steel . . . ”
“Paralyzed in shock / by slave raid tactics, / my trembling hands on the wall . . .”