RAP - Retards Attempting Poetry.
I believe that, and I still strongly believe that, and rap cannot be considered as poetry. Rap is part of the pop culture, but no... it should not be considered as poetry. Its foundation is too weak for that. It has some rhythm, this poem - yes, I'll give you that, but if you tell me that this is rap, I'll gladly take back my good sentiments. Rap is annoying.
Like another reviewer have mentioned above, this was a very informally written poem, but nevertheless, it is okay; likable, even. Just a bit of punctuation and chopping up of stanzas and this will probably improve. The imagery, however, was quite confusing and cliched. If you had brought to us a new 'zing' to the usual image of a prisoner, I would've applauded you. And oh, just so you know, prisoners do wash their clothes. And iron them. And they do clean out their toilets. They even take showers, for Pete's sake. Their wardens will put them in solitary if they don't. They are actually pretty neat, but yes... maybe in some districts they still haven't cleaned out their toilets since 1999, but that's exaggeration. The toilet would have to be removed. And that would have to stink. And it would affect the community of prisoners. And they wouldn't want that.
Also, you lack a 3D feel overall. It's a little bit... cardboard-y. He's just complaining. We couldn't really relate to him. He lacks something. Shouldn't he be a bit more depressed about being locked up? Well, why was he locked up? And why's he trying to escape the law?
So much for that. I hope that helped somehow.
See you around.
~ KL
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