Life and writings in a prison in Costa Rica

Thursday, July 5, 2007

a poem for Live Earth

Mother Nature

Once upon a time the water was pure
Now every river on earth is a sewer
How many species are extinct today
Never to return again in any way

I am the mother, your mother earth
It is i who have given all of you birth
Now i curse the day i created man
Into hell! you will all be damned.

It is a capital sin to cut down a tree
you slash and burn all over me.
Today the land once jungle or orchard
we are now victims of an earth you tortured

An angry mother reveals powers she had
as the sky gets hot and the seas go mad
hurricanes and tornados will proliferate
your coastal cities i will eliminate.

Cannibalism will be the final solution
you will be victims of your own pollution
The living will curse the memory of you
and the dead will be your bar-b-que"

Brad's story

Every 3 or 4 years, the Costa Rican penal system relocates long time inmates. These men will have spent their entire adult life inside lockdown. Now 2 new men have arrived from another prison.
One is a typecast stereotype of what you expect a sex pervert to look like in the movies, a muscular squat face with a rotten teeth sneer that passes for a smile. this man could play the leading part in any nightmare movie.
The other new man is confined to a wheelchair. He has a powerful upper torso and is underdeveloped below the hips. This man has many friends helping him in the shower, in the bathroom,, and they are fed from the outside. He was arrested for a sex crime, how is that possible when confined to a wheelchair? what was he doing? could be good movie stuff.
They released the cow fucker today. He got caught in the act, got 5 years and did 2. There must be more to the story, i don't believe it, the cow wasn't hurt in any way, i bet she hardly noticed it at all.

Holly"s story

everything is ok, Brad is starting to believe he actually might be released in august. How? why? strange rumors, whatever. He knows, understands the danger of false hope, and still every time he gets ready to walk out the door. The system seems based on hope, " keep'em happy" kind of routine.
we talk nearly daily on the phone, he calls, i call, sometimes he has important news, like when the wandering dog watched the inmates football game with him, or the time they got a second mango! often about his writings, he is nearly finished with the script for a movie and the hero just got shot and is dying.
and sometimes he wonders and worries about something small that happened when i was a kid, or when linda's twins were born.
all things considered he is fine, works in the prison library. Yes, the even have english books there, left behind by other inmates. He told me of the other Gringo, an american who got 12 years for seducing a minor, a 16 year old who happened to be the niece or cousin of someone important... What he actually did was smoke a joint with her and her 2 girlfriends. he will sit there till 2012. This gringo has read every book in the library and is starting afresh, by book 1.
Dear readers,... Please send books for them!
Kiss to all, from Bradley and from me

Bradley Haylock
"Centro institucional el ROBLE"
El Roble de Puntarenas
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
America central