Our State's Addiction
I'm hesitant to write this poem,
Being from Texas and all.
It is a touchy subject
And I've found my poetic balls.
I'm putting my pen to paper and
Am making a moral stand.
It's not so much that I'm against the death penalty
So much as to how we do it when we do.
I'm about to piss off a lot of people
And maybe even meet a few's approval.
We, the taxpayers, the registered voters, the citizens of The State of Texas;
You and I will kill someone uselessly or otherwise this Evening and call it right.
We'll execute a man or woman, exercising our Collective power and authority in the name of the law.
The question of innocence or even if we have the right One won't come to mind, as we've decided that issue Legally in a courtroom years earlier.
We've caged them like animals for 23 out of the day's 24 hours for a number of years in a closed space the Size of a walk in closet with a
Sink, a toilet, and maybe a window little larger than a Book and we called it humane.
We've fed them small portions of cold or maybe Lukewarm food 3 times a day, fattening them up for The State's ritualized oblation.
Only a few courageous souls will protest and stand in Defiance to us,
Only a few brave and thinking souls standing vigil Outside the gates.
Inside a clean and antisceptic red brick room behind Fences and razor wire And safety glass, you and I will Insert a needle into a living being strapped atop an Altar/gurney.
With a certain detatchment from consciousness we'll Slip it in and hopefully we'll hit a vein on the first Attempt.
Then we'll push in three lethal doses of otherwise Therapeutic drugs and call it justice.
After the deed is done, we'll return what's left to to a Family robbed of A life or deposit what remains in a Hole on Peckerwood Hill marked by only a
State issued number because we've taken their name As well.
We'll ready the altar/gurney in the temple death Chamber for our next sacrifice and continue with the State sanctioned religion.
We'll do it again and again, our State's addiction, Taxpayer and voter approved.
Being from Texas and all.
It is a touchy subject
And I've found my poetic balls.
I'm putting my pen to paper and
Am making a moral stand.
It's not so much that I'm against the death penalty
So much as to how we do it when we do.
I'm about to piss off a lot of people
And maybe even meet a few's approval.
We, the taxpayers, the registered voters, the citizens of The State of Texas;
You and I will kill someone uselessly or otherwise this Evening and call it right.
We'll execute a man or woman, exercising our Collective power and authority in the name of the law.
The question of innocence or even if we have the right One won't come to mind, as we've decided that issue Legally in a courtroom years earlier.
We've caged them like animals for 23 out of the day's 24 hours for a number of years in a closed space the Size of a walk in closet with a
Sink, a toilet, and maybe a window little larger than a Book and we called it humane.
We've fed them small portions of cold or maybe Lukewarm food 3 times a day, fattening them up for The State's ritualized oblation.
Only a few courageous souls will protest and stand in Defiance to us,
Only a few brave and thinking souls standing vigil Outside the gates.
Inside a clean and antisceptic red brick room behind Fences and razor wire And safety glass, you and I will Insert a needle into a living being strapped atop an Altar/gurney.
With a certain detatchment from consciousness we'll Slip it in and hopefully we'll hit a vein on the first Attempt.
Then we'll push in three lethal doses of otherwise Therapeutic drugs and call it justice.
After the deed is done, we'll return what's left to to a Family robbed of A life or deposit what remains in a Hole on Peckerwood Hill marked by only a
State issued number because we've taken their name As well.
We'll ready the altar/gurney in the temple death Chamber for our next sacrifice and continue with the State sanctioned religion.
We'll do it again and again, our State's addiction, Taxpayer and voter approved.
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