Ten Ways of Looking at Prison Lunch

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<head>Ten Ways of Looking at Prison Lunch</head>
						<byline>Gloria Jensen</byline>
						<note>(With apologies to Wallace Stevens)</note>
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						<l>1. With both hands over your eyes, releasing</l>
						<l>one hand slowly to peep.</l>
						<l>2. Through the eyes of a friend you have by</l>
						<l>the hand—who reads braille.</l>
						<l>3. In the bing [solitary] where you can refuse</l>
						<l>to have the thing brought in at all and just lie</l>
						<l>there and sleep.</l>
						<l>4. From across the steam line, where people</l>
						<l>marvel at your petite body (if only they knew</l>
						<l>it's not by choice you prefer to remain frail and</l>
						<l>cautious).</l>
						<l>5. From a prison visitor's point of view — when</l>
						<l>suddenly, miraculously, all one sees is steak,</l>
						<l>greens and potatoes.</l>
						<l>6. From your window late at night as you</l>
						<l>watch one man run with a rake, followed by</l>
						<l>another with a sack, followed by a corrections</l>
						<l>officer, followed by a ruckus you've not seen</l>
						<l>but heard — then all three returning, dragging</l>
						<l>a heavy sack.</l>
						<l>7. Witnessing something come ashore in the</l>
						<l>bay and thinking: my, but it gave up a great</l>
						<l>fight.</l>
						<l>8. Wondering why they have signs saying DO</l>
						<l>NOT PEE ON THE GRASS. Then seeing the</l>
						<l>kitchen girls go out, mow it down and bring it in.</l>
						<l>9. Good Friday—when all the world's</l>
						<l>generous and the relief truck pulls up to the</l>
						<l>kitchen door to drop off loads of potatoes they</l>
						<l>couldn't unload anywhere else.</l>
						<l>10. Seeing more clearly the lunch of steak,</l>
						<l>greens and potatoes—as you attack the steak</l>
						<l>first and realize the fight you witnessed (#6) is</l>
						<l>not yet over, for the beast is biting you now too.</l>
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