so they murdered Troy

[revolutionrabbit]

so they murdered Troy
so they lynched Troy
so they launched boats on Troy
so they executed Troy
we are all Troy now
and strange fruit
hanging in a tree
great wars were fought
for great reasons so they say
and it is written in great text

Homeric epic captures the imagination
about the fall of Troy, real or not
myth or not, still read and taught
in high education, but still we are vexed

how far we have come, since the Gods
and Goddesses, presided over human affairs
and the meaning of revenge and justice

so they murdered Troy
so they lynched Troy
so they executed Troy
they put a needle in his arm
and ended his life in Georgia
it's a bad rainy night day in Georgia now
and the Trojan war drags on, not the war of rubbers
and the church of repression, but like
the condemned man takes his last drag
on his last cigarette...Troy Davis refused his
last meal, he did not order steak and chocolate
ice cream, he composed his last words and the
truth of his innocence shone in his sweet sad eyes
and we are all Homer now
we all write the epic of man's insanity to man
and we are all chain smoking those chains of last drags
on the dregs of hypocrisy and the malice of black hating
blood thirsty judges
and we are all Troy now
sacked by shame and sham
sacked by an insane system that is broken
sacked by a wisp of smoking death lust dust
that was set in motion long ago by a longing look
and we have forgotten what it was all for
and we all feel that execution needle go deep into the vein
feel that killer poison pumping into the strapped down body
feel the drug take hold before the other one stops the heart
what remains is the tears of the falsely accused on death row
and the families left behind to carry on the voice of Troy
and a thousand slave ships burning in the face of Troy

[joel]

Signed and sent, my clement letters
didn't moved supposed "betters"...
yet still, of course,
on him thought "worse"
I it was who tied death's fetters.

[Kailashana]

Thank you for this poem, yes, we are all Troy, being led to our fate.

Blindfolded, imbalanced, unloved and unwashed. My Middle East Peace Form and I were involved, sadly so many came to see the light, too late.

Not exactly a dirge, but appropriate, I think.



My condolences to everyone who knew better. Or didn't.

[Kailashana]

The Guardian: Troy Davis's death must not be in vain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... ot-in-vain

[revolutionrabbit]

I just wrote this, playing on the name
sometimes events take on other shapes
i hope something as sad as this execution
can be transformed in the poetry
and also to realize how history
parallels and mirrors us, we know
that the powers that be could have cared less
if this man was innocent, without going into
the cause and effect, we can see that capital
punishment is about control and fear
more then a deterrent, in fact I would guess
that they were only too glad that this man was innocent
having said that, somehow the people out here have to
acknowledge that there has to be a way to mirror this
back without becoming more insensitive, which I think
is the real purpose behind capital punishment, something
like that.

peace

[saw]

far too much doubt in this case, to proceed with an execution, or as you correctly noted, a murder......racism is alive and well in Georgia, and elsewhere, as is the death penalty......no physical evidence....7 of 9 eye witnesses recanted their testimonies.....yet still, no justice.......this was nothing but, the spectacle of vengeance.....

[jessetc]

awesome poem!

[mnaz]

the imprisoned home of the free.

the state versus everyone ...