Elgin Middlesex Detention Center



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
F*ck that up your in a fight
Do your time no box thieves
What a life in EMDC
F*ck 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
F*ck EMDC F*ck EMDC

Gunna get lit can't deny
Gunna smoke a spliff No Lie
Can't catch me twisted off this shit
F*ck 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 f*ck
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 f*ck 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

F*ck EMDC
This aint the life for me
F*ck EMDC
Free up in the streets
F*ck EMDC
This aint the life for me
F*ck EMDC
Free up in the streets

F*CK EMDC  F*CK EMDC

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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Written on December 25, 2023

Submitted by harrlohart88 on January 11, 2024

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Scheme aabbxccxaxxxxdea ffxxcxdgxxhhieaie jjjjkllkmmmmnoon ppqqllllffffrrrf AEAGAEAG a
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,354
Words 499
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 16, 17, 16, 16, 8, 1

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