<div class="line">In desperate times the prisoner,</div>
<div class="line">to enhance his vision,</div>
<div class="line">closes his eyes,</div>
<div class="line">presses his head into the</div>
<div class="line">puff of his pillow,</div>
<div class="line">clasping it tightly</div>
<div class="line">to hold out reality</div>
<div class="line">or hold in the fantasy—</div>
<div class="line">no one really knows.</div>
<div class="line">To those people on the outside?</div>
<div class="line">They could care less.</div>


A Kansas Lullaby

The Price of Meat

Escape

<div class="line">It starts when entering prison with “The Walk.”</div>
<div class="line">Through clanging gates that freeze your blood with fear;</div>
<div class="line">Eyes searching for the threat that sets you on guard.</div>
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<div class="line">Throat constricts, mouth dries, senses increase your guard.</div>
<div class="line">You start realizing your folly as you walk;</div>
<div class="line">Each step echoes your doom with quickening fear.</div>
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<div class="line">The air thickens with the rank scent of fear.</div>
<div class="line">Shackles rattle as you follow the guard—</div>
<div class="line">Ruin awaits at the end of the walk.</div>
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<div class="line">You smother your fear before the guard opens</div>
<div class="line">the door, ushering you into a life where you</div>
<div class="line">daren’t show fear if you want to survive in the</div>
<div class="line">world at the end of the walk.</div>


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