Written by Akili & LC DeVine
Solitary Confinement (SHU- Cell) Pelican Bay Prison
“Worse than Slavery”
Beginning that first day
terror,
dim lights snatch you
into this breached birth,
mirrored existence to the
first birth’s smack
upon newborn flesh.
We, the ‘Validated’ exist
in reverse within the Beast’s
concrete tomb.
Where time, once vibrant
alive,
screams upon its scolding,
windowless burial.
No ticking clock, No day or night
only
death madness chains,
guards heavy metal guns
always above, always a point blank
skull shot though a cage slot…
Flesh, spirit, name reduce to
associate/member of a prison gang!
Paper voices experiment
with torture as punishment,
as policy, until
unwritten Rules of Law
animal cries, wet with tears,
starvation’s libations.
Staring death in its eyes
from within the hollow
skeleton of
indeterminate sensory
deprived isolation.
hangman’s noose in
how they ‘Classify’
us,
disappear us…
out-of-sight,
out-of-mind,
within this
ice-water chamber.
Yet, never did we
[nor SHALL WE]
give into
Abandonment of
hope, grace, love,
humanity of the people.
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