where wherewithal wasn't
(a sentence of life)
by
Evan Hawthorn

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kept on Death Row for over thirty years
for a single criminal mistake;

still destined to die in a prison cell,

while every single precedent
voted
into
the 'White' Peoples' House

(for at the very least
the last one hundred years)

should have been arrested
for that
utterly "exceptional"
still at large string
of
fathomless and unconscionable

unrepentant warcrimes

willfully carried out against

all of what remains
of
"our"
relentlessly negelected

connection to humanity;

for lo,
there is no actual justice
in
stolen "homelands"

that don't have the wherewithal

to face their own disgrace.

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