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If it pleases the court
We enter a plea of guilty on all counts
Failure to obtain happiness
Failure to find the light
Failure to find humanity
Failure to find hope
Failure to see laughter
Failure to be
Failure, failure, failure

So be it the court accepts your plea
We the court of your conscience
We the court of your very being
We the court inside your mind
Hereby sentence you to 
Death

Has the defendant anything to say?
I repeat, has the defendant anything to say?

Slumped in the chair of exposed misery
Nothing more or left to say
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016


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Date: 9/11/2016 8:44:00 PM
I like this one Arthur. Too bad we don't have courts like this. but the misery they create is largely their own punishment now and forever. I love what tim said to you below. wish I could chat!! I still have not figured out how to do it and by the time i would figure it out, my hubbie would be home wanting dinner. haha
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Date: 9/11/2016 8:03:00 PM
Luckily the death penalty has been outlawed in Canada...your sentence has been commuted by President Trump...lol
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Date: 9/11/2016 7:07:00 PM
no black cap needed for this prisoner....Seren
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Date: 9/11/2016 5:21:00 PM
oh guess he doesn't have much chance of a reprieve then Arthur! love the image you found - it is quite beautiful but haunting:-) hugs Jan xx
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Date: 9/11/2016 5:07:00 PM
bailiff escort the defendant to the morgue ... sad but good in our sense of humor way. hugs
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