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ISSUE NO. 16

November 2025

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Poetry

In My Cell

By

Bart

Bart writes from a prison in QLD.

Willy Pleasance

Here I sit inside my cell

Thinking to myself

Is this Hell

Cold and dark

with a terrible smell

I think it is

Only time will tell.

The Devil Himself

will visit me

if this is Hell

I'm yet to see

One things for certain

I yearn to be

living life so generously

please help me from this Darkness

I see

As the light will shine bright

So I Can See

Oh what a marvelous creation

The earth is to me.

Here I sit inside my cell

Thinking to myself

Is this Hell

Cold and dark

with a terrible smell

I think it is

Only time will tell.

The Devil Himself

will visit me

if this is Hell

I'm yet to see

One things for certain

I yearn to be

living life so generously

please help me from this Darkness

I see

As the light will shine bright

So I Can See

Oh what a marvelous creation

The earth is to me.

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