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life 1 min read 802 views Nov 4, 2016

The Complex 2.0

House of correction umbilical connection to wall street Dow Jones average.

Colored commodities processed at central booking.

Fingerprinted, nutsack inspected, prepared for gladiator games.

14 cents an hour, 23 hour lockdown, stand behind yellow lines or you will be shot...

Caged heat engine powers money streams vast and deep..

Pacing in chain link dog kennels. Pent up poverty felons face time alone, solitary flesh and bone gears moving inside a precise macabre machine. Supervised manchild in ankle bracelets, black robes open centuries old valves to penitentiary pipelines.

inmate programs

inmate programmed into a Pavlovian response.

Programmed with DOC hot branded on the confined psyche, jacked into the Prison Industrial Complex..

Supermax, geto graduates receive dark doctorates on the pathology of man....

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Ezell-Dazh

Well penned, pun intended. We gotta break outta this. Primely psychologically. Pieces like this will help..peace brother

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Poetiq1der

Peace and God's Blessings to you and yours....I was there Brother for ten 10 years straight and can definitely relate....This composition is a phenomenal piece of Art and expression!!! Repect

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Coalhouse

Thank you brethren for the encouragement..

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LP45

Love the word play in this piece. A perfectly poetically eyed insight of reality. Open their minds Coalhouse. Thank you for sharing this.

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love_supreme

Excellent write

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