Today I’m going to link to a poem that’s well worth reading. It was written by Joe Kloc. The name of the poem is also the explanation:
“82 Sentences, Each Taken from the ‘Last Statement’ of a Person Executed by the State of Texas Since 1984”
I don’t have permission to reproduce it so am linking to where it has been published.
One of the functions of art is to make us think.
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