Too Liberal
Does this old poop have any advice
for young people in times of such
awful trouble? Well, I’m sure you know
our country is the only so-called advanced
nation that still has a death penalty.
And torture chambers. I mean,
why screw around?
But listen, if anyone here
should wind up on a gurney
in a lethal injection facility,
maybe the one at Terra Haute,
here is what your last word should be:
“This will certainly teach me a lesson.”
If Jesus were alive today, we would kill him
with lethal injection. I call that progress.
We would have to kill him for the same reason
he was killed the first time.
His ideas are too liberal.
by Kurt Vonnegut
from Armageddon in Retrospect
J.P Putnam’s Sons Publishers, 2008
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