Sunday, August 15, 2004
Gary Gilmore Blues
Criminals are the great existentialists now;
We cheer them on to life, but they go for the glory.
Death gives them identity; they even turn into artists
In their last golden moments of captivity.
We don’t understand it
And thus abhor it,
But the fact probably is, this dying’s
The first right thing they’ve ever done.
rcs.
2nd draft: 02/08/03
©1981 Ronald C. Southern
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Colorful Judy
The Creature
Ron Southern,
Chigger, Texas, USA
4 comments:
Good poem. But I seem to notice how before they die they all seem to find God. Maybe they could teach me their secrets.
Good poem. But I seem to notice how before they die they all seem to find God. Maybe they could teach me their secrets.
nice.
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