Persons and Things “In” (Pg. 169-178, Bandits and Bibles)

Just about every prison inmate is a “lost voice,” their stories only published in this obscure compilation (and many not even receiving this small recognition). Certainly, almost none are taught in normal classes of any time period. But the stories in this narrative are even more “lost” than most, because they deal with “lifers,” that is, inmates who have received a life sentence. These people almost never wrote down their personal experience, indeed many of them probably didn’t even know how to write. They simply disappeared into the maw of prison, becoming slowly gaunter, weaker, sicker and more broken down until they finally completed their sentence by dying.

Wiki Activities

These Shoes of Mine

Activity: write a tribute to something that you own or have

Tribute to a book

Paper and ink, glue and thread;
such are the ingredients for an adventure.
How often has this been said,
how often have poets and philosophers ruminated
upon the power of such a simple medium.

This book has seen many miles,
many adventures, has related many sagas
all the same, yet all different,
experienced through the lens of many lives
and many ages.

Computers, and their games, pale with time
becoming obsolete, beaten, boring.
But a book will hold its appeal for countless generations,
a tribute to the author and his imagination.
A good book has a soul,
and it is the only thing in this world
that is truly immortal.