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T. William Wallin-sato
T.William Wallin-sato is a Japanese
American who works with formerly and currently incarcerated individuals
in higher education. He is also a freelance journalist covering
thecriminal justice system through the lens of his own incarcerated
experience as well as an MFA student at CSU Long Beach. He can either be
found near water and back alleys skipping along to harmonica notes. He
studies Zen Buddhism in Northern California and has been published in
Cold River Press, The Adelaide Anthology, Zaum, and a few anarchist
literary publications. He was the winner of the Jody Stultz Award for
Poetry in the 2020 edition of Toyon Literary Magazine. This is his first
chapbook.
T. William Wallin-sato
36 page,
plus cover, a chapbook of an extraordinary
American journey.
8 x 10, saddle stitched
$14.95
FREE shipping within the Continental United States
"I used to pick up heroin from a chinese poker player with an eye
patch in Chinatown. I wish it were opium but I’m not that romantic. Although 9
out of 10 times I describe myself as a hopeless dreamer on clinic score cards
found in methadone clinics and St. John Hospital Wards. The government doses the
dead with a cherry flavored concoction that only lasts 24 hours. Genius.
Diabolical. No wonder they have so much power. They say they don’t want free
health care but secretly that’s how they pay for their mind control substances.
We call it opiates. They call it regulation. We call it speed. They call it
attention deficit disorder medication. We call it dissociation. They call it
therapy. As long as they prescribe it legality isn’t an issue. This is America."
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