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<\/a><\/p>\nThe House of Correction is set in a forlorn, former industrial part of town. I hurried past old warehouses-some in use, some abandoned. All the side streets\u00a0are permit parking for the guards. No parking for the public. \u00a0Everyone else can go screw because, well, the screws got all the parking spots! It was cold and threatening to sleet\/snow when I got to the jail. I was in luck because a food truck- not a hip millennial food\u00a0truck, an old school roach coach<\/em>– was parked out front with hungry\u00a0guards milling about. I bought a piece of pizza from the truck\u00a0and went inside to\u00a0visit. The visit was fine.<\/p>\nOn the way back, I waited alongside the highway for the crossing-light to change. A discarded sign lay on the ground, intermittent sleet falling on it, \u00a0from one of the many panhandlers who frequent the intersection. Written with magic-marker on the soggy cardboard was something like: I’m not a jerk, I want to work but etc..etc…<\/em> Not a bad pitch. The light change and I crossed the street.<\/p>\nLooking back I noticed a small flock of geese on a grassy area near an on ramp. Not quite six-geese-a-laying.<\/p>\n
On the Sixth Day of Christmas I visited a person in jail.<\/p>\n
Happy New Year!!!<\/p>\n
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