To the sleeping mind of a person born under the constellation of Cancer,
outside beneath an open bedroom window, a man trims the edge using a weed whacker,
the sleeping man dreams of his body in a tank being electrocuted by hundreds of jellyfish,
human consciousness cannot take this noise for long during a nap,
everyday someone somewhere, probably in a prison, gets electrocuted.
Systems of justice deem this sufficient torture to end the life of a person, back in the day,
laws broken by individuals decided by a jury in a courtroom their fate,
even if they were innocent but proven guilty by the state apparatus,
even if they were found guilty by a judge and jury of their peers inside a courtroom,
perhaps no one deserves the death penalty more than a heinous convicted murderer,
indeed this is a fact of our justice system,
nothing is more important than this fact,
given we are only human, however if you or a loved one were there on death row,
maybe, just maybe, you would think about what it is like beneath that mask awaiting death,
indeed, if we were not so sure of our own innocence, each time someone is electrocuted, or put to death,
numb to the core, we are jolted awake by hundreds of jellyfish stinging us,
despite the pain, we remain asleep in a dream, in this metaphor we call life.
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