Details

he just walked off the detail, he was a prisoner and not considered violent, but when he walked off the detail he acquired a knife, somewhere between the road, the state park, and the subdivision that borders it, do they grow on trees, broke into a house and raped a woman at knife point, took off, in her car, and now they can’t find him, all this happening in minutes, this man that was not considered a dangerous criminal even though he was in jail and just walked away from the prison guards that took him to the road where he was presumably supposed to pick up trash, and this woman, now, Raped, robbed, she’ll never look at a man or men or her kitchen the same way again, he raped her at knife point after he just walked away from the prison society put him in even though he was not a dangerous criminal. was he or did we make him. what difference does it make. And Plato thought we came out of the cave.


*vented hastily, direct to screen, after hearing the news story, in the middle of a Spanish class I was subbing for, at a school where they lost two kids in a month, and near the school where the girl was hung from a tree in her yard a few weeks back. This was where I came to escape the crime wave. Is that ironic.