"This is federal inmate A15559CQ..."
Thats my prisoner number. That's what your known as in prison. No one gives a fuck about what your mama called you, to them your just a number and your lucky to even have that. Your nobody. Well, at least that's what they want you to believe. They try to strip you of your identity using control and restraint. Let me ask you something pimp.. what's the biggest form of disrespect that a man can show another man in this life? When you mean so little to someone, your that insignificant and unimportant to that they don't even deem it necessary to even remember your name. In that place your nobody and your soul will have to fight to the death in your body to remember who it is and why it even came down here. Or should i say 'what it is'. You see, 'who' implies that your a person, like with a name and feelings, but after prowling up and down your prison cell all day like some angered Lion who's been captured, you very quickly forget and start to see yourself as this wild and dangerous animal. This beast that no one can look upon. You start to listen to those inner voices that tell you that your no longer a man. You start to believe in your heart of hearts, all those false and negative things which were whispered to you in the darknes of your mind, behind the closed eye. Then throughout your mind you begin to wander, in attempts of getting out of your body where your free, so you look out of the prison bars and you wish you was a bird, because even though they are considered less than a man, they have there wings and therefore freedom, they can go anywhere. So i found my wings. I found the weights...
Felon
HMP HighDown 2012