This is Champagne Song from solitary confinement. Please visit prairwielanddefendants.com. This is a poem called “And What of Me?”
And what of me?
My heart is fragile.
My mind is weak.
Tears and frustrations come easy.
I’ve always been a big crybaby.
I’m lazy and sedentary.
I’m vain and insecure.
I’m small and vulnerable.
I have constant thoughts like crazy.
I’ve always had the most vivid dreams
But nightmares don’t scare me anymore.
I know what it’s like to be free.
That’s just a reflection on, I guess, my development. I was always a small kid, cried easily,
and I took up martial arts and joining the military to, I guess, try to transform? I’ve always had vivid nightmares that would terrify me and keep me awake. But ,somewhere along the line, I guess, I just developed the confidence to not be scared of them anymore. I still have the nightmares,. there’s scary things happening, but it’s not frightening. This is Champagne Song, sentenced to one hundred years for anti-fascism.
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