Alcalá 1975

A BLANK SPOT IN LIFE I was 22 when I came to prison and of course I have changed tremendously over the years. But I had always had a strong sense of myself and in the last few years I felt I was losing my id entity.

There was a deadness in my body th at eluded me as though I could not exactly locate its site. I would be aware of this numbness, this feeling of atrophy, and it haunted the back of my min d.

Because of this numb sp ot, I felt peculiarly off balance, the awareness of something missing, of a blank spot, a certain intimation of emptiness. Now I know what it was, And since encountering you, I feel life strength flowing back into that spot.

From SOUL ON IC E by Eldridge Cleaver Copyright © 1968 by E . Cleaver. Used with permission of McGraw-Hill Book Company.