Award-winning poet, playwright, and essayist. Author of four books of poetry, "Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present"; "Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats"; "The Black Feminine Mystique," "The Black Blood of Poetry," and a novel, "Streets of Rage," and a collection of short stories, "Conundrums: Stories of Law & Justice," written under his pen name Easy Waters. All four books are available on Amazon.com. Waters has over 25 years of experience in the criminal legal system. He is a change agent for a just society and a catalyst for change.
This quote and commentary makes me think of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” and Richard Lovelace’s 1642 poem you allude to: “Stone Walls do not a Prison make, Nor Iron bars a Cage.”
An earlier title of Conundrums was “Prisons Are Built With Stones of Law,” from a proverb of William Blake, from his 1790 work, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” Coincidentally, America’s first penitentiary, the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia, opens in 1790, if memory serves me right.
William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters 
This quote and commentary makes me think of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” and Richard Lovelace’s 1642 poem you allude to: “Stone Walls do not a Prison make, Nor Iron bars a Cage.”
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An earlier title of Conundrums was “Prisons Are Built With Stones of Law,” from a proverb of William Blake, from his 1790 work, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” Coincidentally, America’s first penitentiary, the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia, opens in 1790, if memory serves me right.
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