Jail Groupies

Jail Groupies
By Kirsten Anderberg (http://www.kirstenanderberg.com)
Written April 22, 2007

Some people think jail is sexy
Some people treat prisoners like stars
Some people court men in jail as a habit
Some prisoners shuffle women like cards

He begged me to come visit him
Claiming extreme loneliness, claiming no friends
I stood there waiting as his name was called
And all his buddies rated me behind buzzered walls

A piece of meat, never before have I felt
So reduced to my outer shell
I’ve learned since that was the protocol
Tight t-shirts, cleavage, “cute” sexist shit
That was what made our anarcho-prisoner tick

The prisoner claimed he was there for “political” reasons
He claimed to be victim of sorts
He manipulated the media, but more importantly hearts
Then he gets out of jail and his lies start to play out

We find he’s just an ordinary pig, at best
Offering little to nothing to the community, I’ll attest
Living off past laurels of some stupid violent crime
Yet, amazingly, women are still standing in line!

You can’t be a noble political prisoner
While shuffling women and lying to keep a cover
You can’t be a good person, period,
If you are manipulating and lying to several lovers!

Yes, prisoners are human too,
But that goes both ways
You don’t get a blank check to be a sleezebag
Simply because you were jailed

Yet people make excuses for prisoners who behave
Like sexist pigs they would disavow on the outside
Manipulating women to their own advantage
Making more and more excuses for men on the inside

Prisoners are human too
Well, so are the women male prisoners play
Don’t ask me for support for your “politics”
If you are lying to the women in your life day after day.