May 9, 2013. New Folsom Prison. We learn more of realness and the Gosling Five.
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Sitting here looking out on Mother Earth’s stage, my little window, I ponder something brilliant to say, and I have nothing. I figure that’s okay. So, I just say, “good morning Mother Earth. I have my poetry class today. I’ll see what it brings.”
Day’s done, and I wrote prompts on the board and handed out art pictures to inspire poetry as well. Then I had my students read what they wanted. I have a couple of students too stuck on being a gangster to take poetry class seriously and only see it as a means to get out of the cell. That’s okay for a while, but I want people in my class to share their realness, and I do my best to put forth things they can gain inspiration from, and perhaps inspire them to walk in their own shoes. They will not be in my class forever, especially if they’re not writing.
I had to go herd the Gosling Five back over to the small yard from the big yard that was crowded with prisoners, guards, and free staff. People still stare at me puzzled as to how I get the geese family to walk through both gates enclosed in a corridor to the small yard. People look in awe and call me the Goose Whisperer. I pay no mind to that. I believe the Gosling Five will fly away next week.
In regards to ‘Beyond Bars’, Spoon’s agent said this:
“They are from 2013 at New Folsom where Spoon was for 12 years or more. They had this rehabilitation program there for many years called Arts In Corrections, and Spoon was teaching poetry and prose classes. A.I.C. closed down (government decision) but prisoners kept on, on their own with the help of so called free staff, artists coming in to teach, etc. Spoon called it the Art Room. Last year, New Folsom transferred all the L.W.O.P.’s (life without parole), the Art Room closed down, and Spoon wrote these pieces at the very end of his time there. He was sad to see it all close and everyone in the Art Room disappearing, he was one of the last ones to go.”
Beyond Bars: The Universal is Personal
Flower Photo by CarbonNYC/Flickr (this image has been altered) Photo: Franco Ng/Flickr
children who then become adult of narcissistic mothers are in for a rough ride, they are the ones who end up in prison, feel lost in space in this world, maybe we should start digging a bit further as to why this person is in prison? has this person ever been the victim of abuse?