Analysis of Elgin Middlesex Detention Center
BRENDAN BEAVIS 1988 (London)
Caught up in the clink
Metal toilet metal sink
Orange suits blue shoes
Locked up singing the Folsom blues
Collect calls bathroom brawls
Piss left shit right
Fuck that up your in a fight
Do your time no box thieves
What a life in EMDC
Fuck around you'll find out
So many lost so many in the ground
Forget your family forget your girl
EMDC in herre its a different world
Need to be freed up in the street
This isn't the life for me
Fuck EMDC Fuck EMDC
Gunna get lit can't deny
Gunna smoke a spliff No Lie
Can't catch me twisted off this shit
Fuck the police you fuckin pigs
Got us sitting up on six right
Wonderin what six we got left
They roll up on us in the street
Give us the boots give us the beats
Crown is a ratchet ass clown
Like Covid a fucking disease
COs think they can play us let em believe
COs think they are free ha ha believe
Caged in the belly of the Beast
Caged in here with you and me
Caged in EMDC
The belly of the Beast
Caged in EMDC with you and me
Dont nobody give a fuck
I'm in trouble by this hard Luck
Out trying to make a dollar make a buck
Now I'm stranded my life is stuck
What you know about that
Turning ya dime into a stack
Having your brothers back
Staring down the barrel of the gat
What are you going to do turn and run
Scared of the heat from the gun
Or you down to to turn a little fun
Man up and do what needs to be done
Stay true to your crew and shoot
Let em fly watch em cut through you
Running is one thing we cannot do
Lock it cock it shoot gimme the loot gimme the loot
Dont play we dont got the time
e’re out hustling committing sinister crime
Yeah I know all your bitches be fine
But don't be shook when I make them all mine
Im the outcast black sheep of the pack
But don't get it twisted I go tick for tack
Yo bodies I aint afraid to stack
I ride you know i always got my homies back
I tell the truth even when I lie
Hold it down mother fucker it's ride or die
One day we will all be free we're going to fly
They can't break us fuck let em try
They don't know our demons we hold in
They forgot we were born into this life of sin
But this life we live we cannot win
So be their Reaper slay em with a big ass grinn
Fuck EMDC
This aint the life for me
Fuck EMDC
Free up in the streets
Fuck EMDC
This aint the life for me
Fuck EMDC
Free up in the streets
FUCK EMDC FUCK EMDC
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,354 |
Words | 499 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 17, 16, 16, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 74 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
About this poem
Wrote this on Christmas while locked up in Elgin Middlesex Detention Center (EMDC) one of the worst jails in Canada/ world
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