When you are in a U.S. jail nothing belongs to you. You are not a real person. You are a number. you have no identity.

This is all while you are stil 'innocent until proven guilty'. Fuck off you hypocrites ... yeah xxxxx County, I am talking to you.

The only, and I mean only right you have is that they can never take your bible from you. So one of the first things you do regardless of your religious views is get a bible. Don't even get me started on the red tape you must jump through to get the bible in the first place.

Anyway, once you have posession of the bible you get all your important phone numbers and addresses written down in there. Sorry if anyone feels the need to tell me I am blasphemous for doing that. Well, in my bible I also wrote poetry, thoughts and the such like that I knew I wanted to remember. Yeah sure I kept a diary too but it was always with the knowledge that I could lose it at any point.

Sooooooo ..... my point that I am slowly fucking getting to. I was sitting here tonight doing some writing. Well, we all knew some demons would get released from the recesses of my mind when I started this book didn't we? Tonight it has really hit me hard the lasting effect the whole fucked up situation could have on others .... namely my son, C.

So, I want to share with you guys a short itty bitty poem I wrote for him that I found between the Old and New Testament.

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Sitting here alone in a room full of strangers,
Trying so very hard not to be consumed by the anger.

With every passing day that I sit here in this jail,
I wonder what'll become of me in this living hell.

All I see around me are bars and walls and chains,
When what I really want to see is the falling rain.

The kind of summer rain that is cooling to the skin,
Sadly that won't happen because of this predicament I'm in.

Will the bells of justice finally ring true?
I guess until that happens I'm alone and missing you.

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No comments on my crappy poetry skills !!