This entire town feeds off this prison
parasites like leeches off dead fish

MORE!
screams the town
gimme MORE!
I want more prisoners!

A woman observes
“Oh, he’s been here a long time
since before Joey was born”
Joey is now in college

MORE!
screams the prison
gimme MORE!
I want more time!

Seventy prisons in this state
sustain the corporations
that sustain the body politic

MORE!
screams the gov’nor
gimme MORE!
I want more prisons!

the rich black soil gives up its farms
trades them for new facilities
and soaks up the blood of the men

screams the earth
gimme MORE!
I want more blood!

two-thousand aimless men
shuffle under the weight of their burdens
hopeless and defeated

more!
struggle the men to whisper
Someone give me a little more!