Letters from the Inside, Bart Corbin, #6

[Ed.: You know I rarely offer commentary on the letters I get from prisoners, but I just had to tell you that this is my all-time favorite line in a prisoner letter ever: "...some aging old fag on Chardonnay and Xanax. "]


Hey Kell,

Does that bother you calling you Kell? I have tended to short people's names after I have known them awhile. No, I did not see the show. I have not watched any of them. I heard they watched one of them in the dorm across from mine. THey love to watch true crime shoes in here. I never understand that. Hven't you (inmates) seen enough of it from the system? I just hear about hte shows. The problem with [being called] "witty and funny" is depending on one's audience mood it acn be slandered as sarcasm (which I like too,) :) Works for me. Sometimes.

Hey, at least you are on top of your taxes. Any coming back? I'm sick of winter, also, but I always am. We have had a couple mild days lately as I am ready for Spring. NYC is tough to live in if you are sick of people. "Your" crazy sounds like some here. This place gets more mental everyday. Of course ours pull it out here "on the regular" so they can't just boast. :)

How's the company? Clients picking up? The problem with jobs, apts and boyfriends is they come and go. I don't know what I looked like on TV really. I probably look similar but shorter hair (not shaved or crew cut) a litlte less and some gray, but I have a little more weight which is good I think. I was excessively thin during that couple of years, esp;ecially in the early days. I'm like 207 now which at 6'3" is not bad. The rules are your hair has to be hoff youri ears and collar and no more than 3" long. Of course they like ti shorter. It's not like the movies.

Any Valentine's fun? Sorry I haven't written in a while. No real changes. Some face changes but the same prison "game" is always on. I heard we had another "sticking" today and had one last week. Just a lot of stupid broke guys inh a recessoin; too cowardly to head up in a fight and too arrogant to let anything up except their mouth. Prison is a state of arrested development.

I heard the Fed cut off money to Georgia based on their use and on-compliance with regulations. I think it's good for they never change unless hit in the pocketbooks.

Well, I just had the lights cut out on me for it is lights-out time. Thanks for writing me and wish your fllor and everything is ok. :)

Be good,

Bart

I had an old friend write to me I haven't heard from in a couple of years. He is a hairdresser, gay, and a little older than I. I'm straight, of course, and this guy used to be so supportive. Then he writes this quick letter that was so insulting and typical of the attitudes of many of the past people I've known. They all seem to believe they are due a personal explanation like why I am here involved them at all. People here in this country of ours have an elevated sense of self and what they are due. Anyway, he came off as a stereotype of some aging old fag on Chardonnay and Xanax. Pathetic and I did not return correspondence.