A Beginning about Ends

Clarence Allen, California, 1/17/2006
Blind,
Responsible.
Strangled and thrown
It’s a good day to die,
Thank you very much

“Thank you very much”
Before the three-chemical sequence
Longer than usual
About 18 minutes

Four past midnight
With a stairway to heaven
Thank you,
Thank you,
A road,
Sight.

Robert Lee Massie, California, 3/27/2001
Upbeat, prepared, extra

Hello, goodbye
Never know you again

If ever

Forgiveness, unknown, toes deeply immersed
So long hope for pursuit of better befores

Perhaps change,
Letting go to find

A particularly perplexed prison parlor