Pelican Bay

from Paper Life by Anu

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Pelican Bay State Prison is a supermax facility in the state of California.

The 8-by-10-foot (2.4 m × 3.0 m) cells are made of smooth, poured concrete with perforated cell fronts and doors. There are no windows located within the cells. Instead, there are fluorescent lights, which the inmates can control.

Inmates are confined to their assigned cells for up to twenty-three hours a day, looking out through a perforated steel door at a solid concrete wall.

Inmates have argued that confinement in Pelican Bay is cruel and unusual punishment, due to severe conditions. Some psychiatrists and psychologists have described a condition which, they say, affects inmates who spend more than a few months in isolation. The symptoms reportedly resemble those of post-traumatic stress disorder, including hallucinations, depression, anxiety, anger, and suicide.

The cause of most of these symptoms is isolation; most Pelican bay inmates experience isolation for 23 hours a day with limited human contact other than receiving meals through a slot in the cell door.

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Everything is a minimal gray
Here in Pelican Bay
There is no escape
Here in Pelican Bay

This house is full of people I never get to see
Been living here for years
They still don’t know me

Just waiting out my days
Here in Pelican Bay
I hear them laughing in the other room
Don't think I'll be leaving soon

Sleepless in late nights
Under the dim lights
Serving out my life
In solitary

Wait for 23
Get one hour free
Walk in circles
and count my money

Moving in a metal cage
I’m safe
I’m alone

When the big door shuts at home
I’m safe
I'm alone

In the concrete box on my office block
I’m safe
I’m alone

I’m safe
I'm alone

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from Paper Life, released October 30, 2020

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Anu San Francisco, California

Anu has been creating music for more than three decades.

He studied electronic music at Dartmouth College, with Jon Appleton and Christian Wolff.

He is a pioneer in the Internet music industry, and one of the creators of the Rhapsody Music Service.

He created and taught "A History of 20th Century Music" at Duke University's Talent Identification Program.

Anu currently lives in San Francisco. ... more

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