Mental Rose Series

<p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mental Rose Series: The Imperfections of Us (1)</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Collection of Poetry </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When sentenced to two concurrent 15 year prison terms with no biological family and surrounded by fake friends you quickly rely on God love and your girlfriend for survival. Your girlfriend-turned wife in turn relies on God love and poetry to see the bid through. Herein is the tale of both experiences and observations during the 15-year prison sentence in NYS maximum security prisons. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You get to hear the stories humanize the outcasts of society  build life-long friendships and engage in supernatural divinely guided love that only a small group of prison wives and husbands conceptualize. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This collection of poetry candidly focuses on the human experience in America's 20th century prison system: minority disenfranchisement inferiority racism discrimination love parenthood mass incarceration broken-homes trauma poverty sexuality growth and spirituality all intertwined in harmonious literary form.</span></p>