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Inside the word wall I was rubbing like a bear against the bars

I was sentenced to 90 days with 15 knocked off for good behavior. I had no idea what they meant by good behavior until the guards explained it. If I could write just one word every day, by the end of my sentence I would have a finished piece. It’s always in the details. All day I’d collect words and swirl them in a pan with unintelligible sounds until only the heaviest remained, invariably Russian.
