Seven Years To Destroy You

I spent seven years in federal prison for a man.

A federal prison in West Virginia. For seven years, I washed clothes, folded sheets, and ate two thousand five hundred bowls of mushy potatoes in the cafeteria.

He visited me once. In the winter of my first year.

He wore a camel-hair coat, a watch peeking out from his cuff. I found out later that watch was worth one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

He told me the company was turning around, and his lawyers were helping me apply for a sente