Only Three Days In Cell

Only three days in The Country’s Cell
And one won’t any longer feel well: 
The Damned Bizarre with a Killing Smell, 
A place Tortoise loses help from shell,
To be ringing in one’s ears Death’s Bell,
Dwarfing other sounds with somber knell…

Keen prayers for life to stones tell
Or a song make of it helped by Snell
And hopefully The Waxed Record sell 
But – Sorry - no success would it spell;
For once I’d pandered to it and fell: 
All men aware our Cell is just Hell…

Received Blows you don’t discuss nor tell!
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August 16, 2022 at 2:18 AM
Indeed, deep trauma and yet we look the other way, apathetic
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