Found Poem In Progress

“Those laws don’t protect us.”

  He will sign the bill
“Let’s not mislead the public; let’s not mislead ourselves”

  A false promise, “a bad idea ,”

“Those laws don’t protect us.”

 
  Reciprocate the evil
“Let’s not mislead the public; let’s not mislead ourselves”

  Horrific crimes

 Sharkey

arbitrariness and discrimination

Joseph (Mad Dog) Taborsky

Let’s throw away the key

colonial times

life without parole

“Let’s not mislead the public; let’s not mislead ourselves”

Let’s throw away the key

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/nyregion/connecticut-house-votes-to-repeal-death-penalty.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print