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Robert Hayden - The PrisonersRobert Hayden - The Prisoners
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Steel doors guillotine gates of the doorless house closed massively. We were locked in with loss. Guards frisked us, marked our wrists, then let us into the drab Rec Hall splotched green walls, high windows barred where the dispossessed awaited us. Hands intimate with knife and pistol, hands that had cruelly grasped and throttled clasped ours in welcome. I sensed the plea of men denied: Believe us human like yourselves, who but for Grace… We shared reprieving Hidden Words revealed by the Godlike imprisoned One, whose crime was truth. And I read poems I hoped were true. It`s like you been there, brother, been there, the scarred young lifer said.
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