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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

The Boy in White - prison poem

  

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

The Boy in White

 

He paused in the sun, unsure where to go

His uniform was new and neatly pressed

He carried a new blue mattress and two plastic bags

Containing his prison issue for the next three years

 

No guards were near so I talked with him

I didn’t ask him, but he freely spoke

He told me his story; it might be true

And then

Authority told me to move. I wished him well

 

He was paused in life, unsure what to do

A frightened teenager in his new prison whites

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