---

 

Order this writing in the collection book Unlocking the Mysteries available for only $1795

This appears in a pre-2010 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine. Saddle-stitched issues are no longer printed, but you can requesting it “re-released” through amazon sale as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book! Email us for re-release to order.

Confinement

Damion Hamilton

Caves and jails made the civilization
I was born into

It made penicillin
Guns
Telephones
Cars, Styrofoam, candy bars, bubble gum
And other sundry things

Caves and jails made
The government
It made the law
It made marriage
It made the church
It made schools

Caves and jails remind me of homes
It reminds me of movie theatres
It reminds me of parks and public transportation

Caves and jails
I can see it in the face of a woman at work
I can see it in the personnel manager
I can see it in the faces of my fellow
Workers in repose

I see it in the way buildings are made
I often see it in processions of cars

I don’t see it too often in small children
But I see it in their parents

These caves and jails made us
It watches television with us
It listens to rumors with us
It irons a shirt with us
It smokes a cigarette with us
It falls asleep to beer and wine with us



It awakens to the sun and coffee with us

Caves and jails
Jails and caves

Copyright of written pieces remain with the author, who has allowed it to be shown through Scars Publications and Design.Web site © Scars Publications and Design. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission from the author.

Problems with this page? Then deal with it...