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Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton.
We humans are in such a strange position - we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique - unlike any other animal on earth. Our distinctiveness separates us and makes it easy to forget where we came from. Perhaps dogs help us remember the depth of our roots, reminding us - the animals at the other end of the leash - that we may be special, but we are not alone. No wonder we call them our best friends.
The only thing I remember writing in prison is a couple of poems for an inmate magazine they did once a year.
I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way.
Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.
I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.
A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.
My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.
I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.
People think I'm educated because I talk and write well, but the fact is I never finished high school. I've read a lot, is all.
At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again.
The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.
The loss of a sexual life is one of the worst things about getting really old. The worst thing.
