Penitent Murderer's Prayer [Week's
News Poem by Khakjaan Wessington, January 25, 2013]
If atonement were a spell
Instead of rotten nerves
Flickering beneath shells
Of skin amidst the curves;
The past I see so clearly
Would alter with awareness—
Anger treasured deeply
Was permission to be careless.
I wish I never was
Because
I wish I never was.
“"I'm sorry for the crime that I
committed," 16-year-old Moses Kamin said, moments before an
Alameda County judge sentenced him to 25 years to life in prison. "I
hope none of you forgive me for my crime. I know you all think of me
as a monster or something else. ... I'm just going to fade away. I
hope none of you remember me ever again."”
—Henry K. Lee, San Francisco
Chronicle, Updated 2:42 pm, Friday, January 25, 2013
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Teen-who-killed-parents-Don-t-forgive-me-4224253.php
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