Ellis One
Bob Ludden
http://www.essex1.com/people/robert/
It's living, I guess.
Pretty much the same, each day.
The food tastes real bad.
The rooms are hot and smelly.
I spend a lot of time alone.
It's best to stay out of trouble.
Still, my friends and I are close.
We play basketball.
We watch the tube.
We laugh together
We fight sometimes.
But, we stand together when it counts.
Shit, you won't believe this, but......
Sometimes we even pray together.
Like tonight....there were six of us.
It was a special occasion.
Nobody said much.
We just had to be with each other.
Bill couldn't be here.
I think, though, he knew we were together.
We wondered what he was thinking.
.......As he waited to die.
