{"id":90,"date":"2015-09-16T02:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T02:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/?page_id=90"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:47:55","slug":"baxter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/exhibit\/baxter\/","title":{"rendered":"Baxter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>35 YEARS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ms. Goodall does not drink, swear, or masturbate. <\/strong><br>\n<strong>\u201cIt\u2019s against God\u2019s will,\u201d she says. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ms. Goodall does not gamble, gets paid to be slick<\/strong><br>\n<strong>an\u2019 creep around after 1:00 AM to listen for <\/strong><br>\n<strong>creaking beds, so she can give out incident reports <\/strong><br>\n<strong>to anyone she catches by the creaks <\/strong><br>\n<strong>of their bed \u201cMasturbating!\u201d <\/strong><br>\n<strong>\u201cIt\u2019s against God\u2019s will,\u201d she says. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So I lay naked on the floor, along with cold <\/strong><br>\n<strong>tile, I feel like a private under the bunk, <\/strong><br>\n<strong>hiding from the enemy. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\/as her Sears\/Roebuck crepe soles creep by the door \u2013<\/strong><br>\n<strong>I wanted to ask, what\u2019s the difference between a <\/strong><br>\n<strong>creaking bed\/a manic breathing heavy under the door. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carolyn Baxter. <em>Prison Solitary and Other Free Government Services <\/em>(1979)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/Baxter_full1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/Baxter_full1.jpg\" alt=\"Title page, PRISON SOLITARY and Other Free Government Services. Poems by Caroly Baxter.\" class=\"wp-image-173\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/Baxter_full2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/09\/Baxter_full2.jpg\" alt=\"Title page with portrait of Carolyn Baxter\" class=\"wp-image-174\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>35 YEARS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER Ms. Goodall does not drink, swear, or masturbate. \u201cIt\u2019s against God\u2019s will,\u201d she says. Ms. Goodall does not gamble, gets paid to be slick an\u2019 creep around after 1:00 AM to listen for creaking beds, so she can give out incident reports to anyone she catches by the creaks of <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/exhibit\/baxter\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Baxter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-90","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90\/revisions\/308"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/pami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}