Jon Rode

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Self-Preservation

Steven was shadow boxing on a warm fall morning. “I thought I would give him some motivation,” he says, referring to another man also shadow boxing in the Scona field. Twenty-six years in prison is plenty of time to hone one’s craft. He spent his youth downtown and started doing acid at the age of 12. I thought he looked good for 55.

“One is preserved in prison,” he says.