USA Projects

Days in the Dark

by Corey

(Marin County Juvenile Hall)

I'm constricted by the weight of myself.

Beaten down by silent fists, thrown into hell's deep abyss.

I take aim, but I'll probably miss.  I see the devil laugh and hiss.

Hitting the ground with bone-shatering sound.

I'm fading now, and can't be found.

But I'll tell you what I'm not:

I'm not a hollow shell. I'll burst out, and...

...Miki handed us this poem to share with you.  She hopes to read it  live for us soon. 

Escape

Let me escape from my dark past. Don't stop me, 'cause I'm free at last.  No longer walking the black and white road, where the only way to win is to break the G-code.

No longer walking in depths of sorrow hearing little girls scream 'cause their bodies being borrowed. No longer hearing the...

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Hi, and thanks for visiting the kids and me, here, in this inauguration of Project Site.  Lots is going on here in the Hall: our wonderful collaborators, The Beat Within and City Youth Now, are busy here at Juvie working with our boys and girls in the 7 units to help them talk and think about who they are and who they hope to become.

The writing workshops taking place in the evenings are...