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Book 23 Page 25

The rituals of capital punishment

A good hot meal,

A glass of wine,

And a last smoke and then;

off to the electric chair you go.

How ludicrously symbolic!

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on 6/24/00