Dawud Gonzalez Reads a Diary Entry by John Yarbrough
Dawud Gonzalez reads a diary entry by John Yarbrough, a prisoner in the Ramsey I Unit in Rosharon Texas, at the 2009 event Breakout: Voices from Inside. Read the entry below.
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John Yarbrough
Ramsey I Unit
Rosharon, Texas
July 2, 2008
Today I ate BBQ chicken with a plastic spoon. Sound impossible? Well, eighteen hundred inmates did it.
Usually we eat with a spork.
But today they had only tiny white plastic picnic spoons.
It’s hard to eat chicken thighs with a spoon. Quote me on that.
You ask: why didn’t I pick up the bird? Too hot. The chicken was just out of the oven. And we only have fifteen minutes to eat, so I used a spoon.
The little spoon made the chicken look huge. Maybe this is a new diet idea for the masses: Tiny eating implements, plates, glasses. Worth a try. All these other diet ideas have been tried.
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