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ISSUE NO. 10

May 2025

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Poetry

Mind Incarceration

By

Red Dragon

Red Dragon writes from Wolston Correctional Centre in Queensland.

Dodji Djibom

There's demons in my mind,

I'm struggling to think.

Life's leaving me behind

As deeper, I sink.

This blackness in my brain,

Forcing me under its strain,

Endlessly I wonder,

Can I get out from under?

I'm doing hard time in my mind

My mind's jail, it has no bail.

Mino's prison has only,

Eternal incarceration.

Running with thugs, using drugs

Slowly destroying my life

Getting into trouble and strife

No good, I need to change my life.

Of course, it doesn't work out

Ran its course, got caught out

Now the prison is also real

Full of just concrete and steel.

In this concrete incarceration

New brothers from different mothers

All with similar struggles in life

With end dates from this situation

No release from my situation

Mino incarceration

There's demons in my mind,

I'm struggling to think.

Life's leaving me behind

As deeper, I sink.

This blackness in my brain,

Forcing me under its strain,

Endlessly I wonder,

Can I get out from under?

I'm doing hard time in my mind

My mind's jail, it has no bail.

Mino's prison has only,

Eternal incarceration.

Running with thugs, using drugs

Slowly destroying my life

Getting into trouble and strife

No good, I need to change my life.

Of course, it doesn't work out

Ran its course, got caught out

Now the prison is also real

Full of just concrete and steel.

In this concrete incarceration

New brothers from different mothers

All with similar struggles in life

With end dates from this situation

No release from my situation

Mino incarceration

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