I sit in The Bing—a psychiatric lockdown facility in the dark tower of Rikers Island. It’s a good thing I’m in solitary because the other inmates—Bing monsters—are known as “the baddest of the bad.”
It is hot as hell in here, about a hundred degrees, and the odor is always human waste because the sewerage system is forever broken down—and also because th…
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