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October 27, 2024

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KLOC is powerful and effective.

a haiku:

the death row prisoner
eats ice-cream
slowly.

"I forgive all y’all.

It is all part of life, like a big full plate of food for the soul."
Chilling and eloquent.

As Pierce Turner has said, "Tell everybody I'm going away for ten yeas. I'm going to wander amont the Wicklow hills."

Stop this murdering!

This gut wrenching collage disturbs me so much I have to pause reading and then return to it. That’s what poetry can do—as well as Testifying. In my decades of working with prison writers at MHC I spent a lot of time “inside,” with lifers, not those on death row. I couldn’t have done it. I laud the poet and the speakers and you, Terence.

wow

What Clarinda said. There is so much obvious cruelty in the world right now, this was a difficult piece to take on—and all the more important to read. “A revenge death won’t get you anything” should be written across the sky. Thank you, Joe and Terence. (And thanks also to Grace for the keenly felt haiku.)

David---thanks for the comment.


Thanks for the comment, Clarinda.

"Warden, if you are going to murder someone, go ahead and do it, pull the trigger" says it all for me. When will the crime of capital punishment end?

Astonishing.

This is a powerful poem. The artwork of the prison and also the three generations of people incarcerated depict a sad legacy. This poem touched my heart.

And everyone & I stopped breathing.

Here is proof that you can create a powerful poem by assembling it, not writing it.

This poem has haunted me all week-since I read it on Sunday morning. Such a sad and profound and brilliant poem.

So moving, so essential...thanks for highlighting!

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

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