I got a piece--
I wanted to read a few of these definition pieces there.
And so see if I can find them right quick.
Maybe I got them, maybe I don't.
Yeah, here we go.
And so if you notice, I try to refrain
from using the word prison, formerly incarcerated, felon.
I don't believe in--
I don't believe in those things because I
have met many bad people who are not felons.
And so that holds no weight with me.
It just doesn't.
I mean, I had to start feeling--
I had to stop thinking about that
because I think when one gets out of--
one gets comes like--
is returning citizen, that's a better way of looking at it.
You return back to society, and you're
given the stigma as like a formerly
incarcerated or a felon.
But I don't necessarily buy that because there are many--
because if you live long enough, and if you talk to people,
and you just live the life, you know
that everybody got something that they're not
proud of that they've done.
And they might not be that they went--
they was locked up for it, but still.
And so I refuse to succumb to that.
And so for me, I was trying to write a few things about what
I call dangerous misnomers.
So we'll read a couple of them.
289-128, dangerous misnomers, "Prisoner."
And they're like this definition piece of something,
but I flipped the definition.
"Trapped within a carceral state a bird, a person, or a thing,
but mostly your thing involuntarily
held under restraint, as in human beings combined
to borderlines.
Derivative of prison, apprehension from old French
prisonnière is a detainee.
Colored or a gender given a namesake used to be called--
used to be called indentured or slave,
living in detention unable to resurrect.
Caught in the revolving door without exit.
Stamped with labels, often inaccurate.
Regulated not necessarily to four walls.
Could be urban, also from rural district.
Cage in a body, an idea as conceptual."
"Convict."
"Sentenced as criminal without a release, never ever.
Immoral might be more applicable.
The con is the conviction itself,
a trickster for defendants who without sin is a juror.
In the mirror, a judge on the bench,
a DA, all doppelgangers, interchangeable bodies,
declared guilty by those with guilt, a verdict
within a paradox of secreted legal secrets.
Inescapable now, held by dead weight.
Waiting in forever quicksand, hypocrites
who could be, but are not deemed corrupt in the state
within the statement.
Sanctions on the x cannot never be a good thing.
Label me legend by the original colonials."
"Felon."
"Assigned to bad people but not.
Limited or this malice thing in cage habitat.
A shady character, a cruel misnomer, could be prison,
but ordinary people are cruel.
Uncertain ethical character should be prerequisite
not a record.
From medieval Latin, the evildoers, felo,
a delinquent, but not necessarily legal
or the greatest lie ever.
Told as stigma, meant as a life long.
After debt paid, all is never forgiven.
Classification, of course, without expiration,
a fate some say lose or a lifer, but what is lost.
The evil, the moral good do in the open."