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Friday, August 14, 2020

First Timer

 Danger, Fear!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strip down, put on prison grey.

Down the corridor.  Clank of the iron door.  Turn right.
Given 6 National Geographic Magazines,
the inmate says to put them in my waistband.
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Mind going every which way.
Eyes can't be still either.
Heart pounding....MAN UP!

Walk in the room.
Do I hear laughing?
New fish.
New bitch.
Where you from?
How much time you got?

Prey and predator circle me.
Shank appears---I feel pressure.
The point has pierced a Nat Geo.


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