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Cagedbird
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Post Number: 170
Registered: 02-2004

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Posted on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 - 08:39 am:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Appeal
- For Troy Davis on death row, Georgia (USA)
What can I say,
the man
will be killed, years ago
the state began preparations,
not the first time
knew what to do
took many a life
before him,
took doctors --
(until they refused)
to measure the dose
for lethal injection,
took Governors
(statesmen to explain the Why),
took willing guards
(many unwilling)
in too many prisons --
to make a captive
suitable for sacrifice

What can I say
that has not been said,
argued in stately manners
at rally, legal briefs in courtrooms
before judges and executioners

What can I say,
the lethal authority of System
makes facts into strangers,
kills men in warfare and execution,
starves families in ghetto-liberty

What can I say,
How often silence is like a death -- not Death:
- Let the man live!
- Halt his sacrifice!

(Laurence H. Ebersole, 10/24/08)

(4 u know who, peace!)


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