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LEAP YEARS ILLUSION

October 5, 2018 by San Quentin News Contributor

“No one – not even the government itself – has ever been able to specify with any certainty the precise number of federal crimes defined … in the 27,000 or so pages of the U.S. Code.” In the 1980s, lawyers at the Department of Justice estimated that the criminal code contained 3,000 crimes.  Today, the Heritage Foundation estimates the federal laws currently enumerate nearly 5,000 crimes, a number that grows every year.

Holly Harris, Executive Director of the U.S. Justice Action Network, told Foreign Affairs Magazine in “The Prisoner Dilemma”  March /April 2017 www.ForeignAffairs.com

Clarity Not constant

Sanity fleeting

Both invade, momentarily

Disrupting chaos

Attempt stokehold of balance, Dangles off cliffs

Exults in our commitment to higher levels,

Persuaded by fears mediocrity,

Flatters ourselves

Depriving death at his door,

Laughs again

Harbors and it’s reflection of nothing

Mirror within the stranger,

That is our self,

To all, know one

Fear’s fully reflection a bounds,

Leaves one lonely

A search of a single sale, making no commitments

Leaving only the legacy of intangibles

Fear the touch “Obedience” impelling

Cleansed by the purest of liquids unwashed,

For on this existence, a doormat

Today a new chapter unwritten awaits

The words in search of themselves

Sturdy as the bindings that bare

Assimilates dancers on stage

Liberated by eyes they pry to defending worlds

Immortalized, saturated in sorrow

The preys fade, intention sustained, concern, the burdened, desperately seeking evasive knowledge people ponder the thought!

A splendid serenity,

Confusing shrieks is sirens undusted

Unleashed, the truth of generated embellished,

Waive the right to disagree

The lies uncontested with a cry to rally the laws of youth,

Eyes open, a dead man’s fleeting thought

Contempt, a whisper away from breathless, lips

Once the miracle of life

Decomposes, pence again, forgets to speaks

In that fleeting moments the Universe’s reward

Sustaining elusive lies

Everything learned instantaneously stifled

Housing the totality of nothing lost

Another second passes

People stop, think!

Something forgotten, failing, unrecognizable

The world has passed

We’ve lived to long and

Muddle the message our mother spoke

The pearls fade

Clarity shames Moment’s regressing shame less guilt

The damage poets of tomorrow

Folklore our future

Kaos the legacy of our limitations

Leans lightly in disparity

Cleansed by purist of liquids unwashed, eluding in moments shameless guilty..

We weep

Bound by sunken silly rhyme

sage silence seriously rebuked

The orator protest the peace fulfillment of disaster’s dream

Characterizing in adamant emotion

Bowels heaping of swine

Breathe the impurities of predecessors

Windowless walls visualize the unmentionable,

Equal sage silents,

Wears the pants of preachers’

Eger to adorn suits,

Fail to walk the path least followed

Wallows awaken destines mire

Spoon-fed pestilence to podium gazers’,

Pass through Nordic fingers, frozen, purified drop the past

Fractured belief of relevant obscured

Postures callow smiles

Smirks and bleed

Bowels barks of bewildered bed fellows Bison to their mates

Misery malinger mass mutiny

What the pound of pork

A pond of flesh

Reiterates, est. in peace,

Relentless resists the down

The market’s call, closed

Bowels heaping of swine

Blood soaked sheets

Awaken from sleep,

The smell of death

Cleansed by the purest of liquids unwashed we rise.

By Miguel Munoz #AY9507

Wasco State Prison

P.O. Box 99-Fac-H-Bldg-H3-Cell-159L

Wasco, CA 93280

“64% of California’s jail population is awaiting trial or sentencing as of December 2016.” Most remain in pretrial custody because they cannot afford bail.  Jail Profile Survey, http://www.bscc.ca.gov/

PPI’s “Correctional Control: Incarceration and Supervision by State” is the first report to aggregate data on all types of correctional control nationwide.

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