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Title
37
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
37 by Danny Cherry 37 by Danny Cherry pg. 1 My thirty-seventh birthday – February 18, 2020 – had been quite memorable; All things considered. The goddess Audrey Hepburn and I had eaten "Breakfast at Tiffany's" five days before. The pass I received on my birthday to the infirmary provided an opportunity for me to promote my work published in the Archive. The dentist entered urgent care just as I was exiting. "Did you enjoy reading the piece I gave you sir?" He had made...
PID
apw:12361313
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:59:07.805Z
Title
A Pollyanna in the penitentiary
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
7 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Pollyana in the Penitentiary by Danny Cherry As I sat reading Executive Regional Director Michael Osburn's response, I just shook my head and chuckled. I was way beyond the point of disgust given all that had happened up until that point. Writing the commissioner had always proven itself to be an exercise in futility, however, my conscious reasoning would never allow me to rest unless I dissented from the recidivistic conditioning of the Indiana State Reformatory. Initially, I became d...
PID
apw:12356553
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T16:11:52.048Z
Title
A cesspool full of drecks
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
10 pages
Text (TR_WF)
A Cesspool Full of Drecks by Danny Cherry As I lay there in excruciating agony caused by the severe infection that had resulted from my untreated burns, I tried very hard not to cry. My salted tears only exacerbated the wounds on the left side of my face. The pain was crippling; it paralyzed me. My wounds bled profusely and oozed puss incessantly. My sheet and blanket were ruined -- stained with the essence of my tortured being. I wondered how much more that my body could bear before it yield...
PID
apw:12356723
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T18:32:42.239Z
Title
Advanced recidivism conditioning
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Advanced Recidivism Conditioning by Danny Cherry I had been torn from my sleep again by the continuous music that had blared from multiple offender's tablets, since they had been introduced into the Indiana State Reformatory - I was exhausted and sleep deprived. I would not have cared too much if the surrounding offenders had elected to blast symphonies, but they had chosen to broadcast toxic rap songs that promoted illegal drug distribution, illegal drug use, violence and sexual promisc...
PID
apw:12356408
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:51:08.819Z
Title
An erudite's antirecidivism medications
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
An Erudite's Antirecidivism Medications by Danny Cherry As the virulence of recidivism continued to run rampant through the Indiana Department of Correction, I did not cease from combating it with cultural medicines; I refused to allow myself to become infected. Although I was exceeding poor, I still made financial sacrifices in order to positively maintain my intellectual and emotional health. Pendleton's staff's refusal, for well over three months, to send money that I had tr...
PID
apw:12359685
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:49.881Z
Title
Beautiful enemies
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Beautiful Enemies by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I finally understood how sane women could have loved men like Christopher Columbus and Adolf Hitler; I had strong physical attractions to a few of Pendleton's tyrants. The equilibrium of love and lust I felt for them was a by-product of my loneliness -- great solace came whenever I saw or though of sexually clandestined escapes with those forbidden lovers. Cruel despots -- the most handsome men I had ever seen, consumed me in my moments of despair;...
PID
apw:12361147
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:55:10.528Z
Title
Concentration camp
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
5 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Concentration Camp by Danny Cherry I imagined the inhumanity that Anne Frank witnessed and endured, as we chronic care prisoners were being herded through Pendleton's cafeteria to receive flu shots. Indescribable fear paralyzed me; medical staff threw used syringes onto tables where we would be eating later; I had HIV, my blood alone was a deadly weapon. Rapid thoughts raced in my mind, as I pondered what infectious diseases flowed through the veins of the remaining multitude. I requeste...
PID
apw:12359695
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:03.818Z
Title
Every member of the human
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Date
2019-02-13
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Danny Cherry IN 2-13-19 Dear APWA Editors, Every member of the human race is entitled to dignity and equality. That being said, I am not an "incarcerated [writer]," I am a writer who is incarcerated. To expound—without a doubt—would be an exercise in futility, especially to marginalized people suffering from delusions of superiority over members of the population whom have been disenfranchised by crime. Such prejudice against prisoners is unbecoming, degrading, but worst of all segr...
PID
apw:12356189
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:12:47.905Z
Title
Haters and hypocrisy
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
6 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Haters and Hypocrisy by Danny Cherry The terror I felt when I rose and saw that my mail had been placed on my door’s port was so potent that it quickened me from my somnambulistic trance. I was appalled by the fact that Sergeant Prater had done such an unethical thing. I was even more disgusted that our range detail or anyone who went to med line had not the decency to either have woken me or- at the very least- to have thrown my correspondences on my cell’s floor. Out of my naïveté, I had fo...
PID
apw:12356495
Date Uploaded
2019-05-24T14:53:54.804Z
Title
Immortality becomes him
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Immortality Becomes Him by Danny Cherry pg.1 The crown of prison reform could only be worn by an activist who's mind and body were able to bear its awful grace; I determined to be the omniking of change. My neverending quest's path was riddled with debased politicians, partial judges, and detestable prison offenders - Heartless monsters above human relations. Pendleton's envious and jealous offenders were like venomous serpents constantly poisoning the body of its civilization....
PID
apw:12361143
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:55:03.413Z
Title
Revolutionaries' waltz
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Revolutionaries' Waltz by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I had grown weary of the square-dancing with Pendleton's bigots and sycophants -- my feet were yearning to dance the Waltz of Revolution; The steps of positive change. The garments of equality fit me perfectly, and my shoes of activism never wore down, even though I was always in motion. The Indiana Department of Correction's despots were powerful, yet dense and unorganized. If I continued to endure the hardships of their indescribab...
PID
apw:12361180
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:55:58.291Z
Title
The Indiana state recidivist conditioning center
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Indiana State Recidivist Conditioning Center by Danny Cherry I had been cast into the Dark Age where all that was missing was a fagot upon which to burn my faggot ass to a crisp for the sheer pleasure of the lower primates. I was a damn fool for ever even having thought that tyrannical philistines would permit a replica of priceless elegance into their abyss. I never truly believed that anyone from the Indianapolis Central Public Library's research department would actually oblige me...
PID
apw:12356302
Date Uploaded
2019-05-28T17:20:57.83Z
Title
The price of active pursuit of justice and human dignity is high
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Date
2020-07-08
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Danny Cherry Perdleton Correctional Facility 4490 West Reformatory Road Pendleton, IN 46064 July 8, 2020 Dear Editors, The price of active pursuit of justice and human dignity is high: The same 'enormously black offender' that almost killed me in my cell June 19, 2020 when Officer Harper unsecured my door for him, split my head open with a sock full of combination locks today. When I returned from the law library, there were a great multitude of offenders - under the influence of al...
PID
apw:12362584
Date Uploaded
2021-06-10T15:32:57.142Z
Title
The queer language-bender binding purgatory
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Queer Language-Bender Binding Purgatory by Danny Cherry pg. 1 The Queer Language-Bender Binding Purgatory by Danny Cherry pg. 1 I had recently been sending correspondences to various secretaries - of Education, of Health and Human Services, of Defense - in Washington informing them of the I.D.O.C's atrocities. I also elected to notify multiple environmental, and infectious disease specialists, mostly in the state of Indiana, about the prison's living conditions, lack of proper s...
PID
apw:12360943
Date Uploaded
2021-02-03T15:48:56.234Z
Title
The unbreakable queen
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Unbreakable Queen by Danny Cherry I walked Pendleton's camp like Naomi Campbell; I was born to supermodel. The state's hideous brown onesie, and its innumerable haters, could not discourage me; I was over. Pendleton was abundant in miserable employees, and drug addicted prisoners; Those losers received no audience from me; Ever. Negative individuals did not even exist to me; I saw the world in technicolor; It was gorgeous. Pendleton's gays were far worse than straight boys ...
PID
apw:12359701
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:31:11.78Z
Title
They spilled my tea
Author
Cherry, Danny W.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
They Spilled My Tea By Danny Cherry I leaned over the side of Pendleton Infirmary’s hard, funky bed puking my guts out; those incompetent drecks did not have a clue what was wrong with me. My arms resembled those of hardcore IV drugs users because of medical staff’s many attempts to draw blood from me; their miserable failure had my members covered in more tracks than Jesse Owen had ran throughout his career. Nurse Susan had my medical chart visible to the multitude of other offenders travers...
PID
apw:12359690
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:30:56.865Z