Yet different will go on in here.
Projected past frontline.
It’s it’s obvious—can’t let you in.
This is telepathy.
At the back gate with people in and out.
Property dealt refuses.
Purse rules.
Anxious aspect jumpsuit.
Different will go onto here.
Spit big on guilty ground.
Pronounce unsocialized.
Inspect all restraints, irrespective of level.
Sentencing a growing number before they get to them.
Just sweep the locked guys outside before you go.
Kick your filthy cycle to try and hear the coping.
Yep.
Occasions as average.
Direct as reflects.
Quit taking protocols with the others.
Anxious outside jumpsuit.
Order placed hands classified as out.
Order placed now up pacing up in cuff.
Human waste refuses said hands.
Your turn turn until a statement resolve the plot.
Leave me this system we’ve been acting up.
Don’t feel friendly you know.
Refuses orders— special response called in.
Filter basement mission statement shuffle shuffle.
And—all directions go down the same way?
Are you giving me directions?
Protective environment [cut shuffle]
1ST INMATE:
You want to pass security
saying believe I’m saying
and just outside like anybody
Your behavior has ended up plans.
We shouldn’t opportunity double purpose
just acting out bigger curses
against the possible force. Allow
case
the committee’s feel, upset grounds
induced door
Can you turn the kitchen way?
devote the simply spent
rest think themselves a rest
Can you share how
one step into my familiar?
while most manage
well well in the card game
fight.
with staff.
hands out before you
frankly feel the level, my conversations
transferred. They’re community of me
and get one pretty head, thankfully
I saying come over but really not
doing something stick?
Basically it’s pretty if
hands and knees is crawling with
obvious and cameras would pronounce
it hopeless
Can you share how
we have to be assertive?
2ND INMATE:
Obviously
giving me directions
would call you brother
telling us out of trespass
The dark Bible
gets a witness
The meal considered
spit on a hundred officers
ignored my
TV in my cell you
with Oprah
all right.
changed Texas and
fathomed the nation’s emergency
Crisis trying your stomach.
sicker chemical to help
pay
attention
don’t turn in the kitchen.
as soon as I step I have
happened
CHIEF:
But when his patience had a free
home health record then he created
the cool
And then regularly
one would fight complying
“But thankfully there’s pretty much freedom
really can’t confines
we’ve been not realizing
It grabs curses
telling you
“Curses
enrolled could be freed in you
Write MARK on the board
to kill
clinically and frankly
those gentlemen
Don’t care who is murdered
but how
GUARD:
Release is plans and I’m innocent people leave complicated so long learned plans fear the world to release innocent people hurt schedule understood and still is legal fear innocent concerns go insightfully lost are tight plans become team you know is complicated will call other plans learned well trying little bit will put society right through learned plans insightfully to stop off in nothing’s room
COUNSELOR:
A cell becomes behavior fine
in the goal-directed discussing of inmate security
down to the turnaround reason no Facility reflects.
I want brighter rules
locked down in the cards
of this 24-hour conversation.
Better courts believe
you an apt judge, brighter
day, ironic cloud of empathy.
Spiral not, fragile bicycle,
like an obvious Ohio year
hallucinating a lock of the knees.
Overmedicate me—
not to parole Jesus.
Health is like being legal to begin with.
3RD INMATE:
Why they want to plot the big issue throws
me. Record each time saying “Let’s
last I mean leave. Well
well out of
behooves and cracks finally get the
notice. But they’re in compliance. Obviously
times two and no mental net. Their facilities are so
fragile and live, not understand. Don’t require
attention but regardless provide quite an
environment, ladies and gentlemen, no side
effects.
My people know nothing
about it. Don’t we think we need
a staff? We’re not playing Jesus
here!
The knees are not incompetent
sir.
Our guard will change place. Not
simply twice. No
place didn’t get my
name it
Didn’t get my name
I have to go through a purse I
mean please
Pay. Yes’m.
refusal paranoid yes?
Pretty place talked yeah.
Going to get cool. Ow!
About the place, something gave
me some yeah I
tend
not really
I tend
NURSE:
his eyes told
There are two others I think
it’s saying
the people didn’t get a
weekend
and were eventually deported in
a light file
reportedly afraid of the
safety
If a dose
is going to work,
don’t double up
and/or
backs crack
get separated
It’s units in here.
kind light
restraining into it
the community
if asked
CHIEF:
Acting off in terms addition had to
mouth emergency in already units
you got effect
have you
here
looks decompensate to least
Simply know they’re realistic
in somebody’s world
These perhaps might just take
control of everything
plan special dark bars
irrespective if not unprecedented
deviant director and acting took
patience from place. Hang on voices
to remember those long numbers
GUARD:
I’m still in with that bigger team you know every lost life plans hurt you know you take a treatment and every hurt plans a tight innocent system in some plans understood my work I’m still in mind to go bigger with little treatment plans going to society directly to stop it’s innocent plan it’s trying directly so think on schedule because that’s not innocent it’s scarier still and more insightfully coming to society just in mind you know bigger things in legal sleep so sleep a lot you learned it learned that you have other plans so sleep directly to me a little scarier fear that hurt other plans you know I’m still in
CHIEF:
if not bats question is:
hand’s ain’t nothing
ignored handle grabs
for dropped weight, up to you
upstairs. Privileges the hand
through wind
fairly grabs
knees all change as delusional
are you on?”
put up property watch please
inspect my purse
refuses what’s new
“snatched”
to write your check
this is classified as robbery
hand goes right through
a purse
like dark cloud voices
WOMAN:
Hey inmate
don’t you see and staff me
Watch your intake then call me
the patient phone.
New inmate locked and you’re gate money
released on the condition she’s realistic
and here we go
Shuffle in my time
to bat
Many very high applied fast attention
right
to the point
where weight complicated
my ironic security.
Shampoo now state property and acute crime
Two toothbrushes wooden bats from Texas
Talk about a prison consultant. Correct
like a kicking release schedule. “You have adjusted
beautifully”
corrections
His cell you need beautifully
Need my cell in protective custody
want in
We need to hallucinate colors taken from society
Write them up as if they were free
Patient to be restrained.
Pat Clifford is the author of several chapbooks including A story by fair: Rules for Radicals (2006) and Ring of Honor (2007). His work has appeared in Boog City, Hundreds, Streetvibes and is forthcoming in CyPress Magazine. A five-minute version of Asylum was performed at the Naropa Summer Writing Program in 2007.
