Lush Soup
Poems - Art Work - Short Stories - Notes - Rambling

I can still see the north star from my cell window, what happiness it is to have someone love you.

They let the first of the 3rd strikes out this week under CA Prop. 36. A friend of mine who never should have been in prison for the small amount of drugs he had in his possession, I believe he will never be back.

The best of the New Year to Aunt Alice. I happy to hear you're doing better, I so much enjoy those cards & letters.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh - W.H. Auden

You still scare the hell out of me. <3

Baby Sister - I'm glad you're my sister - I love you - I hope you're back home when you read this.

I'll love you forever - ever: there are days I feel all alone.

I hope you and Nancy are having a good day, brother, I love you.

Aunt Alice just turned 89 :), she says it may take her a little longer to get somewhere but that's not going to stop her from going.

I'm only taking one class in college this semester and that's Political Science - this I understand, almost.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked away from because they would take too long. I started painting at 65.

You fill my heart with all the joys I've ever dreamed.

I just want to sit here with you from this time until we are old, within their illusion. It is hard not calling your name out loud at the top of my voice [illegible].

If you don't have time to write, leave a short message on the page. It's all good, just say hi.

If you had to name the nicest thing that has ever happened in your life, what would it be?...

Forever & ever <3.

These granite walls
That surround
Folsom old prison
Rise high into the sky

One would think
They would keep
The madmen out

Yet they enter
Through the gates
Each day

The window bars
Not so high
One cannot see
Freedom

Steve Burkett
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[drawing of a stone wall with a small barred window]