The county jail behind the courtroom
is called the tombs
because it’s where the system
buries their dead
Clyde told me I won’t have a life sentence
and I won’t have a death sentence either
I guess this will be somewhere in between
like Jeremy Mathis
hanging in the middle
Dead to the world
but somewhere in our souls
we are both scratching at the walls
yelling to the sky
punching the air
to let everyone and everything know
that we are in here
still alive
The tombs is where we
wait for space in jail
hell
I’m sureI’m sure
The tombs is where we leave
our bodies so that our souls
can burn in an inferno
I’m sureI’m sure
This is what Jeremy Mathis’s mother
wants to believe
She said it herself
I hope he goes to hell
for what he did to my son
