counting black sheep by Marek Lugowski ---------------------------------------------- 19. the state of alabama took a man with an iq of sixty nine strapped him tied him fastened him lodged him secured him isolated him isolated him very very well a bit too well actually... into the electric chair and threw the switch but because of the faulty connection the jolt was not enough to kill him. as he slumped in his chair apparently unconscious workers fixed the cables apologetic workers fixed the cables apologetic state of alabama fixed the cables yo. the people of the great state of alabama rested their judeo-christian case and the people of alabama fixed them christian cables and the switch was thrown again. this time this second time twenty one hundred volts 21 times 10 to the second power dropped on the unbroken heart of mr. franklin dunkins jr. mister heartbreak franklin dunkins. junior. nineteen minutes after his ghastly ordeal had begun, mister dunkins was dead. was dead. was dead. was debt. if this isn't cruel and unusual punishment what is? 59. as governor of california from 1959 to 1967 mister edmund g. (pat) brown. had to decide 59 times to gas or not to gas that is the question. whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the swings and arrows of outrageous... fortune... 2. while we are on this fascinating subject let us recall fondly mister willie francis's execution: mister francis a 17-year old black youth he survived you know. well you didn't know most likely but survive he did you know the first execution. yes sir. now you know. bbbzzzzzzit. ruba dub dub. rub a dub dub. rub a dub dub-dub rub a dub dub. it's willie's day. willie wakes up and willie says... i look around... it's love... i look around again... it's fear... hmm strange dream. a new death warrant was signed and a year later in his second trip to the electric chair the electrifying chair our majesty who art in hell the most electrical chair i am. henry the eighth. henry the eighth henry the eighth i am i am. i am... in chair we thrust i am. he died. kraniec filma. in georgia. in 1984. mister alpha otis stephens struggled for breath for eight minutes that's 8 x 60 seconds equals 480 seconds plus: gentle. men. there is a kind of usual roundoff error in this punishment for after the first two mean-nut surge was administered his cells just had to be scrambled more thoroughly a second time. that's all. mr. raymond landry of texas. december 1988. had the bad malpractice luck of having the lethal injection procedure done such that the needle popped out of his spasming alive muscular forearm oozing the seed of death. rejected by the rigor not quite mortis of this inappropriate and unwilling vagina. yup. well ray's arm ain't no dang pussy. it resisted. pop! squirts the klean phloor with poizonnnnn. poor mr. executioner. poor mr. landry. poor mr. janitor. poor messrs. witnesses. poor ms. justice. she was not yet satisfied... she was not -- fucked well -- no sir. not at all. the needle had to be reinserted and mr. landry had to spasm. for. a few. more. minutes than. one of them nice humane texan bullettes would have takennnnn. ku klux. 3. the question is not what whom when to kill. to kill. to keel. the question is not what whom when they killed. they killed. they kilt. the question is whether those of us who are not criminals want to be responsible for inflicting horrifying acts on them. on them. condemned. 10-4. step right up ladies & gentlemen. step right up! step right. step up. )Copyright 1997 Marek Lugowski Posted to A&O&O&A, Sept. 1997 Apple and Oranges International Poetry Magazine Maine, USA. Edited by Tom Fallon. Note: This poem and my identity were stolen and rewritten as mentioned ===== in the letter below: ----copy of letter sent on 1/23 by email------------------- From marek@shell-2.enteract.com Tue Jan 23 04:04:41 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: marek@enteract.com Received: (qmail 72297 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2001 10:04:41 -0000 Received: from mail.enteract.com (207.229.143.33) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 23 Jan 2001 10:04:41 -0000 Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (root@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA25575; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 04:04:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from marek@shell-2.enteract.com) Received: (from marek@localhost) by shell-2.enteract.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0NA4eq49109; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 04:04:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from marek) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 04:03:20 -0600 From: Marek Lugowski To: abuse@hotmail.com, admin@w3px.com, googlebot@google.com Cc: Marek Lugowski Subject: stolen identity and forgery of intellectual property, mine Message-ID: <20010123040320.A48635@enteract.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Status: RO Content-Length: 2119 To: abuse@hotmail.com admin@w3px.com googlebot@google.com hi. while routinely checking Google for my name, "Marek Lugowski", I came across a theft of my identity as "Marek Lugowski can be e-mailed at poet125@hotmail.com" which figures below a purloined title and a re-editing of my anti-death penalty work "counting black sheep". The link is: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.w3px.com/poems/1999/1999_07/week_4/pxp32142.htm+Marek+Lugowski Which is the cache of: www.w3px.com/poems/1999/1999_07/week_4/pxp32142.htm I surmise that the motive here is to disagree with my ethical stance which condemns the death penalty -- by stealing my work and its meaning, as well as my identity. I'm sorry to see this happen. The actual poem was published in Tom Fallon's Maine online periodical "Apple and Oranges International Poetry Magazine", has been posted many times to Usenet's rec.arts.poems, and was republished by Tom as one of the best poems of 1997. The work itself is from 1990. Here is a link to the poem under the best of: http://www.aopoetry.com/97best.html Of the server, admin@w3px.com, I request that the offending page be taken down and that none with my name ever be allowed because they will be forgeries -- I have no intention of participating in so weakly-monitored a forum; of MSN/Hotmail, abuse@hotmail.com, I ask that the purloined identity poet125@hotmail.com be nixed and that if possible, the perpetrator be chided. I don't have any requests of Google, gooblebot@google.com, unless they see something fit to do other than weep and commiserate. Thank you, -- Marek Lugowski editor of A Small Garlic Press 5445 Sheridan Road 3003 Chicago, IL 60640 my main home pages: http://www.enteract.com/~marek/ http://homepage.mac.com/marek_lugowski/