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"Racist pig"

They served breakfast, lunch, and dinner on thick brown plastic thermal trays Each meal was nutritionally balanced, and the portions were certified by a registered dietitian to provide each in with all the daily requirements of whatever it was the Minnesota Department of Corrections deeood, better than some restaurants I could name, and obviously prepared by someone who took pride in his work There were five meals in all--which is how I kept track of time, by the nuive the cops the satisfaction of hearing hts Instead, I was determined to remain quiet and still, to lie onsoftly to myself

Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen

Nobody knows my sorrow

Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen

Glory hallelujah!

Iat first

My stoopen I stayed onuntil the officer announced, "You’re free to go" I rolled off the concrete bed without speaking, takingas if the officer had just told me that the dentist was ready to seestation The sergeant was leaning against the wall behind the desk His na read J MOORHEAD I pretended not to see hie envelope and dus I slowly counted the cash "It’s all there," he insisted, so Iit a second tieant asked

"What’s the naeant pushed himself off the wall "Be careful what you say," he told o

The officer behind the desk handed n here," he said

I took the clipboard and flung it across the room

I intended to say what I had to say quietly, only it ca up for your rookie, but I was doing you both a favor by keeping Bau on a suspect--and you putYou should have checked me out first You would have learned that I have eleven and a half years on the job with the St Paul Police Department, five eant suy who’d heard it all before

"Some people need e You’re gonna get more than one"