To the Public
The crimes of this
guilty land will never
be purged away –
I want the press
to know this. We
are the first victims.
I was in a lot of pain
I was bleeding
profusely. I regret
I have but
one life.
Remember the death
penalty with blood.
It’s in God’s
hands now…
If any of you got
a message, give it.
*John Brown, Bennie Demps, Robert Drew, Lavinia Fisher, Thomas J. Grasso, Ethel Rosenberg, Nat Turner
To Those of the Law
Good people,
be more powerful
than the voices
you strangle today
the blood you
are going to shed.
The time will come
never visited
when I silence those
who have occasioned
my death, my fate.
*William Corder, Barbara Graham, Louis XVI, August Spies