• Author: B-8545
• Editor: B-7413
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume V
• Page Number:
• Date: 2 27 1918
• Tags:
• poetry
• prison

STRICKLY ORIGINAL

While doing time, right here in the pen, Without a relation and without a friend; My thoughts went back to a wasted life, And a girl I loved, who was once my wife.

As I sit in my cell from day to day, And listen to talk other fellow’s say; And see what a fool I have been, I shudder to think of it, here in the pen.

So I’ve started studying day by day, And look in the future, far, far away, And there I can see success and fame, For which I am striving, striving to gain.

Gaining in wisdom, and gaining in fame, I can leave behind me a blemished name; And starting out in life anew Be upright and loyal, honest and true.

—B 8545.