The wall heater fan blows
Through nicotine covered blades
Comfort and disgust
Howard sleeps in the other room
A murderer
I have a voice
That drowns in feeble attempts
To find common ground
Prison talk
Wears my spirit down
Keys dangle and jangle
With con stories followed by
A con laugh
Followed by con stories
Rat tat tat
He reeks of felon in my home
A shaved head
His battle with bladder cancer
Eyes behind coke bottles dancing
The ultimate hustler
A tin shed with pinholes for stars
Is where I found him
Drip drops the rain on penetentiary scars
Two cats and a storage shed
Walt Disney collectibles
And stained glass butterflies
One sits on my window sill
Watching for danger
Through nicotine covered blades
Comfort and disgust
Howard sleeps in the other room
A murderer
I have a voice
That drowns in feeble attempts
To find common ground
Prison talk
Wears my spirit down
Keys dangle and jangle
With con stories followed by
A con laugh
Followed by con stories
Rat tat tat
He reeks of felon in my home
A shaved head
His battle with bladder cancer
Eyes behind coke bottles dancing
The ultimate hustler
A tin shed with pinholes for stars
Is where I found him
Drip drops the rain on penetentiary scars
Two cats and a storage shed
Walt Disney collectibles
And stained glass butterflies
One sits on my window sill
Watching for danger
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