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Welcome to my Row

By Arthur WaltonPublished 4 years ago 4 min read
The New Row

What can honestly be done when you have no will or want to accomplish anything? Such as if lazyness was an Olympic sport you would win the gold, silver, and bronze, you would win everything.

That is the dilemna found on the daily rounds where I currently reside and call my home, of course here you have no say or option of what is known as mine, even when your all alone.

Reason for that is simple, this is not your normal home by any stretch of the imagination, but that is done on purpose to remind you to not get sent away to do a sentence of time of incarceration.

Of course when you are sent here they will tell you that your ass belongs to the D.O.C. as well as their property, however you will learn quick, fast, and in a painful hurry if need be that once inside these walls that you really belong to a man like me.

The system may be in charge of the prison itself plus can pick out who gets to house where, but it is us the inmates that run the yard and will make the final decision on allowing you to still breathe air.

Like Drake you will start from the bottom in order to work your way up while earning stripes, from the ort timers to lifers everyone has a role to play while serving your time.

All kinds of different people have been honored with the right to be a soldier for me, everything from guarding the shower to cooking in cafeteria or pick me up a tv.

Sometimes they will allow time for you to have to earn any such rights, then other times you may get woke up suprisingly to orders in middle of the night.

Just like everyone in this forsaken setting, no one can ever make up their mind, not without attempting to show what power they hold over others at the time.

The position I command really makes no difference like all things do in the long run, but being human means that 9/10 times the fragile ego must be built up and w by someone.

May be by the significant other or by someone else who happens to be within close proximity, one thing is when it is not stroked it can lead to warfare as shown by our illustrious history.

Something as trivial as that can lead to a full blown gang war out n the yard, people always try to insinuate they are the man yet when push comes to shove they soft not least bit hard.

Put they backs against the wall so you can find out what exactly everyone is made of, ound here that tends to happen the first few days unless you walk in here like your tough.

When that occurs the perpetrator will end up on either the wall or on the dreaded fence, depending on who puts them their will help determine how bad, bloody, or if death is what they ill get.

Ive been fortunate enough to see the quietest, most docile individual you could ever get to meet, then turn into the most maniacal psychopath literally plucking eyeballs out just to chew on and eat.

Saw an underage juvenile get tossed in the cage with all the lions and bears, then walk out without a single mark on him except for now he has to do 70 extra years.

Witnessed the most unassuming man on the entire yard just explode out of nowhere, transforming into a walking weapon taking out several people, letting it be known he the one to now fear.

All anyone here wants is 1 of 2 different things or maybe want both, that would be fear and respect plus being the ones to be feared the most.

I try to be simple, easy, plus fair as well as contently calm if you have a healthy respect for me, especially if that respect was brought based off the fear from stories used to scare and open your eyes and see.

The ones like me have our own little code of rules and ethics that we live by, normally not violent by nature yet if need be i will be and results will never leave your mind.

That is the general idea behind it, so if it must be done then prove an enduring point in the name of respect, that way when the next person has similiar thoughts instead they will go ahead and break they own damn neck.

You are better off swinging at a federal judge than to think bout disrespecting me, plus I have an army at my disposal ready to kill or die in my name if need be.

I do not ask I command, demand, and expect an unwavering loyalty with no questions asked, if given a task to carry out, do not hesitate, just simply complete your orders with said task.

Doing that can help you survive and thrive alot longer in my place of residence, come find me, I am the inmate shot caller of any jail or prison in the world running things from cellblock D.

Goes without saying that you will not want to meet up with someone like me long as your walking our fine earth, since meeting me would mean you are doing a prison term however long the judge deems your crime was worth.

So you are alot better off walking that line of being a law abiding citizen than dropping into the underworld as a criminal, unless you are from this world you do not want to be forgotten, stomped out, then ft comatosed like a vegetable.

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