elementia

Untitled

By JDC Resident
issue 3

I wonder...

I sit in my cell and

wonder

where will I be when

this is all over?

will there be something

waiting for me on the

other side of the door?

Will the world have

changed?

freedom
identity

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Quotable

By Julia Marquez
issue 3

In real life things don’t have outlines.

Life
control

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Life Bites

By JDC Resident
issue 3



My life is full of tragedy

Hurt and pain left and right

I see things a little differently

Looking for sunshine in the night

Life
despair
hope

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Repercussions

By Josiah Jackson
issue 3

Condemned by them

Isolation

Controlled by them

Aggravation

Freedom lost

Twice the cost



I am on probation

freedom
identity
control

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