Kill The Killer (but don't hate him)

    the best time of his life
    seems to last and last

    the son of a bitch, yes,
    feels the warmth
    of the bullet proof clothes
    he feels touched
    by the policemen dressed in flower blue
    protecting him
    from the families
    of the young women
    killed or raped by him

    the relatives of the victims
    promised him his death
    he is infected with AIDS
    and he is peaceful
    in the full bloom
    of the spring in this Michigan courtroom

    with so much attention and feeling
    devoted to the murderer
    do these families still remember
    the girl who got hurt?

    to be technical
    he is son
    of a prostitute killed
    by one of her "johns"

    i don't know
    if the families of the victims
    have ever encountered
    fire volcano eruptions hurricanes flood...
    but now
    they've met him

    do they hate earthquakes?

    he is in his only gentle spring
    they've promised him his death
    the victims are as dead as ever

Wlodzimierz Holsztynski
      1992-05-31