MAKE MY DAY

I will tell you how my day goes. Breakfast is served at 5:00pm. I'm a diabetic so I get a special "tray" plate with food that is of stuff a diabetic can eat. I usually wake up at 4:30am and brush my teeth and get ready for breakfast. Everything is in my cell, sink, toilet, a metal sheet that is a mirror. After I eat I play my radio and stretch and walk for a half hour, than lay back down and rest until about 7:30 - 8:00am. Then I'm up for the day. I read my nowel for a while. We are allowed 3 books from the prison library each week. So I read a little, I meditate and and just thinks about what my life could of been.

Lunch is served around 11:00am. All meals are brought to my cell as everyones are and put through a flap in the door. After lunch I workout for 2 hours, usually finish at 2:30pm and cool down for another half hour. 3:00pm the nurse comes and gives me my insulin shot and then at about 4:00pm dinner is served. 3 nights a week they cuff us in handcuffs one at the time and let us get a shave and shower. Other than that we takes what's called a "birth bath" where we wash in our sink.

Then I wait for mail call and hope for a letter. Our cells are close together so we can talk but all everyone does is argue all day. It really is hard, I'm doing better than some but it's really hard on the mind. A letter helps so much. My life is boring and most of my activity takes place in my mind by going back in time changing things and reliving them. Oh, how I wish I could change so many things!

If you're reading this than you already read my introduction. Things have not changed, still surrounded by the walls. Still struggling with sanity but not crazy yet. I hope you enjoy the poetry and if you have questions about me or more important even about solitary confinement on a long term basis, please ask. Ask questions by writing at the address below or sending me an e-mail (you find it on my profile).
I WILL answer all questions openly and honestly. Please feel free to write.

Ricky Silva DC# L24722

Florida State Prison

7819 NW 228th street

Raiford, Florida 32026

U.S.A