I CAN'T FUNCTION

It’s hard to function in a 7 x 9 foot cell when you’re 6 ft. tall. One step you’re at the door, 1 turn you bump the bunk.

I Can’t Function

It’s hard to function when you hear grown men cry, scream, and yell, then smell riot gas because it’s used to quiet those cries and screams.

I Can’t Function

It’s hard to function when you receive a tray with 3 palm-sized pancakes for breakfast, noodle and spoiled vegetables for lunch, and a cold sandwich with hot mayonnaise on the side for dinner.

I Can’t Function

It’s hard to function when the drinking water is coarse like salt, the state-issued juice tastes like water, and the morning coffee looks like a swamp.

I Can’t Function

It’s hard to function when the state-issued soap makes you break out in a rash, the state-issued toothpowder tastes like Ajax, and the razor they issue won’t cut hot butter.

I Can’t Function

It’s hard to function when you can look out of your cell window on the day of an execution and watch your brother walk to the van, only to be driven to his murder.

I Can’t Function

Jasiri Kilinda Watu

aka Christopher A. Young

#999508 Polunsky Unit

3872 FM 350 S.

Livingston, TX 77351 U.S.A.

E-mail: Christopher.Anthony.Young@gmail.com