Penitentiary Poems - Poems about Penitentiary

You gotta have it, if you can reach it, better grab it/ If you want it, you better wrap it and hold it tight/ Pass it down for generations if you know it's right/ Because it's all about your patience if you know your life/ Benjamin Franklin said it best.../ The only thing promised is death, so I hustle every...

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I wish that I don't go to jail tonight/ But if I go to jail I wish I don't do life/ And if I do, I'll be alright/ I just wish I do it right/ Sometimes I feel like a cliff hanger, can't hold on much longer/ But I'm still holding on, getting stronger and stronger/ Even though my days feel...

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Gothenburg Penitentiary, the hardest of the hardest/ The concrete jungle, where everyone is heartless/ Gothenburg Penitentiary, the show now mercy/ So, you gotta learn to swim in murky waters/ Gothenburg Penitentiary, my heart just sunk/ The next fifteen years of my life I'll be sleeping on a bunk/ With a celly who's a mess and a cell that smells of funk/ The...

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Walked into prison young and small/ What I lacked in size, I made up in toughness/ Even that's not enough, these dudes are huge/ I hit the weight pile, tied up my shoes to choose/ What should I do, take a jog or walk a while/ I seen some dudes lined up at the weight pile/ Hitting that iron, getting swole...

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Dodge Penitentiary, what are those voices/ Dodge Penitentiary, losing my mind doing time/ Dodge Penitentiary, where the am I?/ I entered Dodge Penitentiary, hardest of the hard/ My paws on the concrete, ready to fight/ I see familiar faces in the shadows/ Are they still my friends or will they test me/ Schizophrenic like crazy, my first time in prison/ I may be...

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Soaking suds at the pub and somebody said, Son. One just ain't enough but three is too many. And don't forget about when, You're running on empty. You want to paint the town. With your fave gal Wendy. Then the Judge says, now. They have evidentiary. I Gotta lock You down. Inside the Penitentiary And you're not getting out. For half of this Century. Seems like three. May lead to...

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After serving six long hard years at Methacton State penitentiary... as mini reunion number XLV fast approaches Saturday, April 30th, 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm at The Trappe Tavern, 416 West Main Street, Trappe, PA 19426 regarding graduating alma mater brought to forefront of my awareness, though yours truly, one generic beetle browed fool on the hill, and paperback writer wannabe will...

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Not once did I note, That the circumstances were of my own delineation, Strapped in chains of my own making, Entangled in a web of my own creation, Incarcerated in a volary of my own making, Now in the air casting castles of liberation, Which I know too well may never come into being....

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