One of the earliest resisters of the Vietnam War, Ross spent two and a half years as a prisoner of conscience in a federal penitentiary for refusing the draft. Upon his release, he recounted in a poem, when a prison official walked him to the door, Ross, he told me with a look of disgust written all over his smarmy mush, you never learned how to be a prisoner.

One of the earliest resisters of the Vietnam War, Ross spent two and a half years as a prisoner of conscience in a federal penitentiary for refusing the draft. Upon his release, he recounted in a poem, when a prison official walked him to the door,

Ross, he told me with a look of disgust
written all over his smarmy mush,
you never learned
how to be a prisoner.

  • Febrero 02, 2012, 2:24pm

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