They Took Me.
Then after Processing I guess we all got
put on this giant War
Bus and got to have
pleasant conversation together and when the bus pulled into the metal
shutters of the garage and stopped a fat man got on, opened the main
cage we were all in and he said “I’M LUXOR ZYGOG
III ESQ. or something,
CAPTAIN OF THE C.E.R.T. TEAM, AND I ORDER YOU TO COMPLY, WILL YOU
COMPLY?” and we sort of rustled and he said
“GOOD”
…
and I was thinking still about how this was all quite suspiciously
well-orchestrated for a modern-dance ballet and that the set was really
something.
…
Because it was very boring I am describing the georgraphic contour of
my small cell so maybe you can understand it. It’s important
that if
you get bored you go away.
…
so I looked like a Chinese acrobat.
…
So I kind of went down the far Red stairs and still had a pretty stupid
loud haircut and I think one of our guys had been bailed out at $3000
or 10% or that cause he’d been wearing a sombrero or
something and
there was a bank of 10 phones but 3 of them were dead and it was insane
to try to call on them and I kind of bantered with some people who were
laughing and kind of having an ok time laughing and there were some
tables and chairs around and some people looked kinda mean but really
everyone was just people and there was one really fat guy
...
Still, I didn’t really get that ripped, and the food was not
quite as
good as that cake I dumpstered over and over again from our filth in
North Dakota after I ejaculated into my socks and then put them on but
I got most of it in and it was wonder bread and things that seemed to
want to be acting like potatoes and mush and a lot of meat mostly and
some smears of ketchup or something like butter.
…
and when I went back to my cell to be locked in again I made some
suspenders out of the bits of sheet the other guy must’ve
left there
and kind of gnawed little holes in my pants to tie them onto. Then all
that day I was all coming in and out of my cell wearing each time more
accoutrements, a bow-tie, a headband, a top-knot like and this guy said
how “this cat’s a pimp even in jail” and
I ran around for a while and
the guy said how was I doin and I said ok it was ok here and he said
yea this can go in your memoirs and I been thinkin since how he was
sayin that to an activist white kid and 3 million Americans are in jail
or prison and it should be considered a civic duty and hella people are
so scared of it like that crying 120 lbs. girl , and then later about
how with bail if you’re rich you just pay the whole $70,000
and get it
all back but if you’re poor you have to lose $7,000 to a
bondsman so
the rich stay rich and the poor get poorer like in the G20, or like how
on the wall of my cell it also said “they aim to take us away
from are
families” and “so many fatherless
children” or something like to
obviate the connection between black guys in prison and perpetuating no
male modeling for black kids as a conspiracy theory to undermine the
community and I thought that even though its not maybe a real planned
conspiracy, that doesn’t matter cause the effect is the same
so it
might as well be and it makes itself one, right.
….
so then I had started to make 1000 paper cranes out of a food-stained
W2 form
....
when that rapist guard came up to me I knocked out at him and said how
I was a pretty good artist and I would draw him ladies if he would
gimme his pen for a while and he said ok so first I drew some ladies
but since I was all in jail I wasn’t feeling the sexytimes so
they
didn’t come out so, so I started writing on all the old court
notes I’d
got that day in the garbage and hoping the guy had fallen and got hurt
so I could keep his pen
....
then they gave me back my clothes while a stupendous thug obviated that
I’d have to pay for the sheet I’d shredded to hang
myself with and I
put my cow suit back on from a box and then put on deodorant and
realized how I’d just gotten a toothbrush and some white
shreds for
$1,200 and I was happy about that cause it seemed like a pretty good
deal so I started brushing my teeth as I sat down and slowly came to
the realization in my ears that there were fifteen govt thugs at the
desk in front of me all sort of lounging and taking turns saying
“penis” “penis”
“penis” sort of nonchalantly and it was just raw
and
baffling and gave me a whole new perspective on law enforcement. So
they took me out calling me the stinky cow and I was sayin’
how I was
the Stink Cow too an then I walked out the door to my friends who had
set me free and I did another flip and we held tight and it
wasn’t no
easy thing for them either to figgur me out of that.
I guess, then, that I think a lot of people don’t do things
they would
do cause they get scared of going to jail. And I don’t mean
it’s hella
rosy or hella bad, like anything I guess anything can happen and its
for sure hella boring or what, right, but I think in general
it’s not
something that people should be afraid of, or something that they
should let stop them from doing things they want to do or let the fear
of it bully their ideas around.
here's some
prose poesy
from in there &
maps
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