Prisoner

Please read carefully

Prisoner

thinking

of you now:

sky heavy,

leaves

fall through

air chill

with threatening,

a closing in

on a solitary

mind

tremulous

in its

searching,

prisoner

entombed in

life beyond

sight

in building

planted among

the poor

state

sanctioned

malignancy

no, it does not “work”

no-one is safe

good people made bad

bad made worse

let us

think again

indeed

let us

think

ignorance,

mentally in the

shallow end

gives no

safe place

ignorance is not bliss

ignorance is ignorance

George Coombs

Reviews

[RoxyMonoxide]

This is excellent writing, and I feel the structure, short passages, reflects the confinement of prison. The rythym and rhyme work well too, and you make excellent points on prisons making people worse. Well done!

[George Coombs]

Thankyou Roxy