04-06-2019, 02:34 AM
Doin Time
I retired after nearly 40 years as a hack at the Red Onion
supermax. Pulled long shifts to send my boys to college,
have a nice house, and nice cars. A lotta good that done.
My wife run off some 10 years ago with a frickin ex-con.
Then one of my boys died from an OD last year. The other
just finished an on-line degree in abnormal psychology
at Leavenworth. He'll have the rest of his life
behind bars to figure out why he killed that woman.
At night, when I get the dreams, I’m still walking the blocks,
doing night checks. After 40 years, and including the dreams,
I figure I got a million hours doin time on the blocks. But, hell,
it was all good. The only really hard time I done was on the outside.
I retired after nearly 40 years as a hack at the Red Onion
supermax. Pulled long shifts to send my boys to college,
have a nice house, and nice cars. A lotta good that done.
My wife run off some 10 years ago with a frickin ex-con.
Then one of my boys died from an OD last year. The other
just finished an on-line degree in abnormal psychology
at Leavenworth. He'll have the rest of his life
behind bars to figure out why he killed that woman.
At night, when I get the dreams, I’m still walking the blocks,
doing night checks. After 40 years, and including the dreams,
I figure I got a million hours doin time on the blocks. But, hell,
it was all good. The only really hard time I done was on the outside.