Traditional Penal Colonies Versus The Death Penalty

by Alice Parris


Where was the death penalty
When scores of prisoners,
Incorrigibles, and lunatics were
Evicted from Europe?
 
Those evicted were given free
Transportation to the new American
Colonies, Louisiana, and Australia
By method of scenic cruises.
 
Indigenous people (remembered only
by the caustic curses on dying men's lips)
Were plundered by greed, converted
By torture, or died of disease.
 
This systematic take over was
not done by just means but by
The "just mean."  Are there no shuttles
Soon scheduled to depart for Mars?
 
Let us populate new colonies
With the terrorists and the terrible.
Sexual predators might be cured
By ancient alien sexual practices.


Traditional Penal Colonies Versus The Death Penalty by Alice Parris

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