 When Jack Scagnetti goes into Mallorys cell, and throughout this  scene, you can read two different paragraphs above the door in the  cell, and below Mallory, on the bedside. The one near the door  reads: "Come lets away / to prison we two / alone will sing / like  birds in a cage." This is from King Lear as he and Cordelia are  being taken to prison. It is a bit more difficult to read whats  written on the bedside, but when Mallory puts away her cigarette you  can see a glance of this reading, as well as when Mickey enters the  room, the paragraph reads: "He is coming! He is coming! / Like a  bridegroom from his room / Came the hero from his prison / To the  scaffold and the doom." These lines are from the poem "The Execution  Of Montrose" by William Edmondstoune Aytoun.