former president of Taiwan, sitting inside Room No. 46 in the detention centre in Tucheng, in suburban Taipei, casts a weary glance over the books, paper and mattress spread over the dank cell.Fuelled only by Gatorade and gruel, he jots down a love poem to wife Wu Shu-chen, simply titled, To My Wife:
"Layers and layers of bronze and steel walls,
A small and dank and dark cell.
A Black Prison which no warm sunlight can penetrate."
from The Straits Times: Taiwan's prison poet
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