On Life Row
Nothing providential came of his heartfelt petitions.
His pleas for leniency, clemency, commutation,
A complete clean-sweep dismissal of his life sentence,
At first went unheeded, then were vehemently denied.
Indeed, the courts only jeered at him disdainfully,
Laughed like vaudevillian villains.
Death concurred that he serve his full time.
10/15/09
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