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There's a memoir by one of the jail warders, a man named Thomas Martin later on, who talks about

he would, for his nighttime inspections in the jail, he would look in the keyhole of everyone's

prison door, and when he would see wild, what wild would we be doing is walking, and wild was a

large man, he was bulky and he was six foot three, and he could take three steps in the prison cell.

What Patty Smith later called it, it was a rectangle of humiliation, his cell.

And he could take three steps, and then would have to turn and walk back the three steps,

and then walk again, and he would observe him pacing, he would order Martin called wild the poet,

and he would observe him pacing back and forth, and every once in a while he would laugh,

and be looking to the stars, and what this order imagined was that wild was in his own mind

out of the prison cell, and in the galaxy, and exploring the far ranges of his imagination.

Wow. And he talks about later, he says, I didn't see him after he left. I don't know what he was

like before he got to prison, or I don't know what he was like after he left prison, but in prison,

he was as close to a saint as anyone that I ever met. Wow. Just imagine this, if you had no

expression for your thoughts for a year and a half, and then all of a sudden you get them.

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