Where Doctors Fear To Tread

What can match the sheer perfection 
of executions by injection? 
Every oath that`s ever been 
obliges men but no machine. 
There's nothing personal in a bleep 
uniting brothers Death and Sleep. 
From vacant eyes I seem to heed 
words inaudible that plead: 
"Burn me, hang me from a tree, 
take everything save dignity." 
No valediction can they log 
when they  put you down like a suffering dog
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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