A Poet's Progress
By Fox-Trot-9
13. Victim's Family Urges Execution: Found Poetry
(12/9/08)
The neighborhood had grown too rough.
Victim's family urges execution.
For...lives were cut short by the sawed-off shotgun of...Stanley Tookie Williams.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...let Williams die by lethal injection.
Williams claims he is innocent.
His supporters...want Williams' death sentence to life in prison.
His life story portrayed in a...movie called "Redemption".
The man who co-founded the Crips be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
You just don't forget things like that.
(To be continued...)
A/N: Found poetry refers to poetry made up of lines and phrases taken from an existing work—in my case, it was a newspaper article about. I feel like I just wrote an epitaph or something.
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PoetryGenre: Poetry. Summary: This collection contains my poetry during my freshman year in high school. It's a record of my development as a poet and as a person told in a collection of poems. I used different poetic styles throughout this collection in...
