收心2016.02.15鋼筆

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Fountain Pen Drawing, 2016.02.15.

“Time to unlock!” I shout at the top of my lungs when the clock strikes eight. Inmates, sitting in their wards, note it’s the end of the Chinese New Year. Covert gambling would have been inevitable. What’s also inevitable is the winners are going after their money while the losers are “fleeing to freedom” - i.e. dodging debt by moving to a different workshop. The definitely inevitable is the “earthquake” (safety check and cell search), which may keep us busy way into the Lantern Festival. Such is likely the annual return-to-normal activities in the prison!

八點一到，我扯開嗓子大喊：「準備開封！」，收容人紛紛在房內坐定，這意味著年假正式結束。
趁著年節偷偷賭上幾把定是有的，賭贏的要討債、賭輸的要「投奔自由（改配到其他工場好躲債）」也是必然的；對幾個賭翻了的工場來個「大地震（安檢搜房）」也是鐵定的，我們說不定得忙要到元宵呢⋯⋯
這大概就是監所每年的收心操吧！