{"product_id":"2940012998156","title":"From Inside These Prison Walls: Book one, Poems from the Inside","description":"So why do I write?\u003cbr\u003eI write for many reasons.\u003cbr\u003eSometimes, I write just to escape from this reality\u003cbr\u003eAn escape into an imagined paradise.\u003cbr\u003eOr in remembrance of a paradise once experienced but long since forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes, I write from memories of a past life;\u003cbr\u003eOne very different and far removed from the confines of these gray walls and rolls of razor wire.\u003cbr\u003eSometimes I write with a sense of the present\u003cbr\u003eLashing out at the judicial injustice currently endured.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes I write with the hopes and dreams of freedom\u003cbr\u003eAnd a future outside of this black hole in which I currently merely exist.\u003cbr\u003eIt doesn’t matter if I am writing to lash out at this system of injustice\u003cbr\u003eOr writing a poem which expresses my joys, sorrows, desires or thoughts\u003cbr\u003eOr whether I’m writing some little ditty\u003cbr\u003ePouring my heart out in a song.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy writings are a mirror in so much as they are a reflection of who I am.\u003cbr\u003eIt is this reflection I sometimes share with others\u003cbr\u003eExposing just a small glimpse of the reflection in the mirror\u003cbr\u003eWhich is me.\u003cbr\u003eAnd so I write.","brand":"MLR Enterprises","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069642293488,"sku":"2940012998156","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012998156_p0.jpg?v=1763575499","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012998156","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}