LIFE IN NEW HAVEN
By: Issa Elkhatib
Chapter 1
It was ten o’clock; I knew that because the prison officers were yelling lights out. They were yelling lights out, like I had the fuckin’ light switch in my cell. I’m gonna be in this steel caged hell hole for thirty years, only they don’t call it that. They call it KERRYSBURGH MAXIMUM SECURTY PRISON, only I called it a fuckin hell hole. The dirtiest fuckin people walked these cages, murderers, rapists, gangsters, New Havens’ fuckin finest. When I was growing up I never thought I would end up in a ten by ten cell for the remainder of my natural born life. But that’s what happens when you do the wrong things in life. The one thing that I learned was that one must never trust. The second you trust someone, you give them the chance to put a bullet in the back of ya head. As I’m lying down on this piss smelling mattress, I’m staring at the ceiling. Remembering the life I once had.
My parents were hard working......
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