Johnny E. Mahaffey The Novelist Portent
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WHERE IS JOHNNY MAHAFFEY?

[An image of a bookcase under the fiction section]

Prison in itself is the very embodiment of societal failure--cell after cell, filled with the lost sons (and daughters) of families broken. Either, before, possibly lending to the imprisonment; or, after, due from the imprisonment. Then, of course there is the unquestionable duplicity found within every case--keeping them within an in-between.
Part of my own Purgatory, is that I find myself increasingly preoccupied with my memories, a preoccupation encouraged by idle hands, body, and thought. Memories of my life begin to blur--struggling at times to recall something once on the tip of any moment. I accept that with years passing, my life--Johnny Mahaffey in freedom--will grow less and less distinct, until the day all that will remain will be the forgotten pages of an unread memoir. Even now, as I pen these words I try to gather in the details reminiscent of my life among the living; because prison--is not life. I am repeatedly amazed by how the human mind works: concocting its own way through the muddled anguish of existence.
Every day--too busy for the exhaustive endeavors of prison captivity--my mind remains preoccupied with contemplation of what I can only call "The Bigger Picture." My existence is inconsequential, of that many would (and do) agree, yet it is uncharacteristically human to believe such a thing! Solopsistic, narcissistic views are not becoming of intellectually enlightened individuals; however, such self-centering...

Johnny E. Mahaffey The Novelist Portent
June 14, 2015 Page 2 of 2

[More books that are on the bookcase]

...is unavoidable, to a degree--we're wired for, and trained from birth to believe our own self-importance.
Another duplicitous cunundrum: to lead a seemingly "pointless" life, that absolutely refuses to fall into--or anywhere near--that of the supposed... inconsequentiality!
If I were NOT me, I would not BE me; I would be someone else, and there is no one else I would rather be. It is not WHO I am that is of little/no consequence--it is the WHERE, that is nonessential to the status quo of J.E. Mahaffey, writer...
...ex post facto.

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