Wrocław, April 2020
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BARRED
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Even a prison looks beautiful in sunshine, framed at the river bend, light catching like ice on cold grey stone. So alone, despite cell mate noises beside and across from me, I toss and turn on dank dirt floor. This place, is haunted by inmates gaunt and broken men with keys, as alike to us as rusting bars mirrored in each glassless window. There is no roof so at least we have stars. Venus, the brightest, red-tinged Mars and maybe that blinking one’s the space station, stationed in our patch of black. People died here, finding despair too enveloping, a noose hanging from a beam, a muffled scream ricocheting off asbestos tiles, lost in enemy territory. The people who minded us minded their own business, had to live, had families to feed despite war, had crops to plant despite jaw-aching cold, weren’t bad people were just doing their job, just like we all would have had the tables turned. Now the prison imposes itself, walls us in in our minds, how blindly, willingly we concede freedom. Eyes watch for dissenters, mouths call for enforcers, resorting to trial by social media, increasingly sure this is for the good of us all.
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