Sunday, January 27, 2013

The following are responses from a prompt, "Cell Living," which was chosen from taking ideas from the men in H-Unit and choosing one from a hat.

I'm not in a cell yet*, but cell living is to me
an everyday challenge with the mind,
to be able to control your mind
with the stuff you can't control
Occupy the mind
 -S.L.
 
*"Not in a cell yet" refers to the fact that the writer is in jail waiting to go to prison, where you get your own cell.


Cell living sucks, I hate it!
Listening to fake war stories
Eating crappy food
talking to family on the phone
getting letters without writing letters
watching the same movies over and over
Doing the same shit every day
Boring
Getting tattoos
thinking about life
Hearing the radio
roasting on fools
trying not to sleep all day
eating
canteen
waiting to hear a good song all day
I want to go home
or to prison
-A.C.

Living in a cell sucks because you don't have your own bed from the streets, your own sink or toilet. All you have now is bunk with a small mattress and a chrome sink and toilet between a bunch of us. I guess we just have to make the best out of it though.
-R.B.
The following are responses to a prompt called "Frozen Time," which was chosen as a result of putting prompt ideas from the women of G-Unit into a hat and picking one.

Time...
Has not stopped.
Yet, it sounds like
the clock no longer
tick tocks.
Will we start where
we left off?
Or since time has
not froze will our
relationship be able
to continue to grow?
Of course it will...

-S.L.


Frozen time to me is like being in a whole different dimension. I suppose after maybe coming out of a severe depression, Time would make a person more aware of the world around them. I don't really know because I don't perceive time like others do. I would imagine everybody has their own way of feeling about time.

-Anonymous