Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love
For Those Who Long for the President’s Firing Squads
We still have judgement here, that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague th’ inventor.
-Macbeth I.vii.8-10
Although you may jeer a condemned man today
And laugh as he’s dragged to that berm and wall
The evil that breaks his body will turn your way
You too will hear the Fatal Bellman’s call
The verdict sustained, the appeals laughed off
Poorly trained riflemen will unlock your door
As they drag you away they will scorn and scoff
If they notice you at all – ‘tis their daily chore
You’ll scream into the void your vain last plea:
“I didn’t mean for this to happen to ME!”
