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Sonnet: Shawshank Redemption?

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Surviving prison is 90% mental,

I read somewhere today -- some shmo having a go,

no clue, about things he couldn't possibly know.

The main thing is having a plan for your dental.

Not for the reason you might think with your free thoughts,

all ha-ha schadenfreude there-but-for-the-grace,

but because there's no Obamacare. In your face,

The Man seems to say, heart full of frisky bon mots.

Well, I dunno. There are times when I feel sentenced

to an hour glass house filled with the prevailing rage

of a species falling apart, shaking the cage,

all bedlam babel crazy coop unrepentanced.

The noise is too much with us some sage used to say

then alpha-omegas got him and had their way.


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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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