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So, again, I want to thank
the University of Arizona,

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the Poetry Center,
for the opportunity

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to read some of these poems
that I've been working on.

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Which is going to sort of
help fill out a collection

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that I'm working on.

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Which the title
is called, Number

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289128, which was my
state prison number

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in the state of Maryland.

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Yeah, so.

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There we go.

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''On Visiting Day''.

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''Of being not alive but
trapped in perpetual madness,

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said Roxbury.

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Walk with trustee 289128,
escorted through habitual deeds

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and story lines.

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A different kind of nightmare.

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Life for not taking a life.

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One hour a day under
the feet at rec,

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gravel crunches
around an oval track.

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For a decade, breathe
deep pollen and horseshit.

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Glorious, oh, the
hills of Hagerstown.

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On the top tier watch a jump,
an angel minus wings and halo,

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to his only son.

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A story of survival.

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No one survives.

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Day after day, become
a callous heart.

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Or a broken mind unable to
escape, dead and hollowed.

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There is no escaping tonight.

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Visit each unit after locking.

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Taste the fetid air.

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Cell by fucking cell.

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Make no mistake,
language matters.

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Through narration,
mouth, justice.

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A dirty word in eyes
of confined men.

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Evolved towards the difficult
thesis, a thing for sure.

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Underschool at best''.