Poems from Prison

Poems from Prison is about how a man that is used to being on the open road and seeing all the beautiful sights he possibly can. All of a sudden the U.S. Justice Department puts him in a maximum security prison in Maine without being sentenced to a crime. His is locked in a cold, concrete room that is five feet wide and nine feet long. It doesn't even have a window to look out. He is completely shut off from the world. For thirty-one months he thinks his lawyer is fighting to win his case. Three days before the trial is to start, the prosecutor threatens him. He is told that the government is going to arrest his twenty-two year old son if he doesn't plead guilty to all of what is on the indictment. Of course, he takes the plea so they will leave his son alone. To pass as much time as he can, he starts to write poems. The poems are only to get the things happening every day off his mind. Writing got him through fifteen years in prison.