Corrective Measures: Biography 520513

By T.D. Blackman

“What do you do when the world believes you were better off dead?”
The Biographies Series is a collection of images. Drawn and inspired by individuals who find themselves in the heart of the justice system in America.

Guilty or innocent, the determination is less about conviction. More about the willingness, the acceptance, to face the road after being expelled from the bowels, the hell, meant to shape you.
Beginning in a simple lesson, “the spider has no teeth, yet it devours everything it catches in its web.” All that’s left is an empty carcass to stand as a warning to others, there is danger ahead.

Biography 520513 is one such warning. A view into the life and conviction of a man, an inmate yet ultimately, escapee of a fate many succumb to in the web. The people want justice. Yet what happens when justice decides it’s coming for the people?

What happens when the spider keeps growing its web to the point there is no one to escape past the danger? Will they then turn to the man, Mr. 520513, and say, you lead us? Maybe you’re not as bad as we were made to believe. You decide for yourself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: T.D. Blackman
• Release date: Oct 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370904532

T.D. Blackman

T.D. Blackman is a poet activist.An honorary associate of the RENT party, he writes and speaks as the voice of the New American Promise. A group he started and helps to educate Black America and all America – on the issues and economic advantages, disadvantages, of government wealth, government health; and the toll government takes on people who don’t understand debt.

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Table of Contents

Opening

History and the Moment

Religion Imperfect

The Rain The Wind and Pissing Myself

Fortune and Fate

Three Years and the Case

The F**k Just Happened

Year in a Day

January Days, Daze and Confusion

The Escape

Spent Ends and Days Beginning

A Change in Life’s Conviction

The Days We Long for Reform

The People and Time

The Preacher 4:14

Going Away

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Aug-14

Corrective Measures

Biography No. 520513

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T. Blackman, KDP

Produced in the United States of America

T. Blackman Collection

Birmingham, Alabama

Biography – Life Stories - Crime and Punishment

Prisoners – True Crime - Justice

Copyright ©®2014, T.D. Blackman

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The following composition contains mature language and mature subject matter. It is not intended for all audiences. Please be advised.  The author and publishers assume no responsibility or liability for public display or dissemination.

Opening

Call me Black Man. Guest of a land where opportunity should be as free as air yet, for me, it seems a bit stifling. Restricted while flailing away like the liberty they once so proudly dared to proclaim…I can do anything, before that is I was taken hostage these past years. I told them though. Your tree is dying. Your garden is withering down to the shortage you prescribed for me. Leaning and tottering, I should be sad... I could be

I would, but the reality is, you forced me to be here. I didn’t come on my own. You made a willful decision, like so many,