Archive for March, 2009
Springing Max
March 18th, 2009
And so my love has returned.
Gone are the long cold nights of sleeping alone, unfucked and uncuddled. Suddenly, I am embraced in warmth, intimacy and simultaneous orgasms. Each day, my heart does a little dance of joy and relief. My love has returned. It’s Spring!
Maybe it’s just a coincidence that Spring is the cosmic season of return. Or maybe the Judge, the Sheriff, the Lord or the Lady had this symbolic bit of synchronicity in mind. In any case, it was fitting to be springing Max just before Spring. His official release date was March 20, the Vernal Equinox itself. But I – in an evolving state of outrage over Max’s Kafkaesque “Failure to Appear” (on charges that were dismissed five years ago) keeping him locked up so long, and always one to try to get a “deal” – was not happy with that. So I pushed, pulled, seduced and nagged the lawyers, judges, clerks and court apparatchiks to order him out 40 days earlier – which turned out to be only 20 days, because as more than one prison official told me “85% of judges don’t know how to count the way we count. Haha.” It’s a system that is built to fail, but it’s really a huge success. The idea is to keep as many “bodies” inside as possible, helping the American incarceration industry and all its subsidiery industries grow to obscene proportions. Read the rest of this entry »
