Send Me (To Work)

Send me
to work
where there is
a lack of
staff and resources

Such is a suggestion
from the Human Rights
in African Prisons seminar
(Jails dont heal, they harm)

Send me
to work
computer literate
(a piece of paper
to prove it thus)

Send me
before I myself
commit a petty offence
and congest
our overfull prisons

Send me
to work
before I make
a taxpayer or two
pay my board and lodging

Jody Kollapen calls for
community deal for petty offenders at a recent Jails dont heal, they harm public seminar (Cape Argus, Friday October 9 2009).

-    David Kapp, david_kapp@yahoo.com