Lethal Injection
The needle missed Diaz’ vein. +24
minutes, still moving; licked
his lips, “blew.” “Grimaced.”
At an unspecified time, they found
the vein, injected
more “cocktail.” Death
at 34 minutes plus change.
Conservative blogs joke:
“Go for an hour.” Quote
a fictional guard: "It's gotten
harder since the ACLU
insisted that we can't perform
CPR. We used to push them
right to the limit, then bring them back.
It brought such joy to the families
of their victims.”
More thoughtfully: “Screw the people
whining about the 34
minutes. Why aren't they pissed that it took
*27 years* for this murderous scumbag
to die? He took up
27 years of the people's money …”
“Maybe if Joseph Nagy
had been properly armed and trained, Diaz
would have been killed in the robbery.”
You have to admire the on-demand
hate. Liberals
don’t hate effectively, we
despise – the equivalent
of eros, love of an inferior;
hatred parallels
agape, the love of what’s above.
Otherwise, it occurs to me
I began writing –
arcane, meditative stuff – the same year
Diaz visited that topless bar.
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