Postcards: Men’s Central Jail

Sis, trust you’re well. Simple misdemeanants don’t pay parking tickets, sixty jumpy orange suits in cells meant for fifteen, I try to disappear among handfuls of loud proud more complex miscreants who made – or didn’t make — terrible decisions which led to wasted lives and provoke excessive force in here.

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Gerard Sarnat has won the Poetry in the Arts First Place Award plus the Dorfman Prize and been nominated for Pushcarts. Gerry’s authored four collections: HOMELESS CHRONICLES from Abraham to Burning Man (2010), Disputes (2012), 17s (2014) and Melting The Ice King (2016)