prison life

prison life.
life prison.
life as a prison.
prison as a life.
what can be said is
simple,
if one doesn’t want to
be where one is, doing
what one is doing, then
one is imprisoned---
the walls are high, built
of the strongest, most
impenetrable concrete &
no matter how many swings
your arms may take with
the heaviest instrument you can
find, not a crack will be made &
no Shawshank Redemption tunnels
will be burrowed out, because
alas, this isn’t fucking
hollywood, now is it.

this prison is something
that you are taught from the
youngest age, that you do not
get placed in unless you do something
wrong---you’re taught by those
who are already imprisoned by
their own deeds & their own
submission to the will of the whole &
as they are already hollowed out &
dead inside, the act of imprisoning
others is no longer an isolated incident,
it is a way of life---like the most
destructive of diseases, it festers out from
the minds who have given up, who
have lost control of themselves, who
have abandoned all creative &
beautiful aspects of what it is to be
human, who have settled on
trying to make all those around them
walk, talk & act like
what it is they’ve become.

from the inside out comes change,
because the prison thrust upon us
by others is not one that needs to be
accepted, it is not one that needs to be
ingested & it is not one that needs to be
passed on like a baton in some grand
world games that brings smiles to those
already washed of their own sense of
being, of their own sense of what it
was like to have any individual sense of
happiness, whatsoever.

humor, if you let it, if you indulge in it,
will obliterate the attempt on your life.

humor is that lovely contagion that will
bring endorphins to your brain when you
laugh & it will cleanse the mind of the
walls imposed on you daily.

laugh in the face of those who need things
to be the way they want. laugh at those
who march with power they need to feel good
about themselves. laugh & don’t worry
about the world cuing in, getting the picture &
laughing with you---laughter, humor & smiling
within can bring you out of this prison,
regardless of whether you are
allowed to be
free.