Dead People-Lisa Marie Basile
Dead People
By Lisa Marie Basile
My Judas, he hung himself this Thursday.
Lee Harvey Oswald died on on the same date.
And he was trying to save the world.
The assassin who blew him to pieces was trying to save America.
And Martin Luther King. Shot to death.
Malcolm X.
Elliott Smith, even.
Took a knife to the heart. Himself.
Julius Caesar.
And Jeffery Dahlmer.
We don’t even know how Hitler died.
Jesus Christ was crucified in 33 AD.
That man was hung on a cross by his hands and feet.
They say his wrists could never have held him up.
Saint Francis of Assisi. Gone.
Jack the rippers’ mutilated whores made history.
Whores are people too, you know.
Che Guevara had his time.
Cancer took Marley out.
Don Quixote, and all of his love, died.
Rasputin: wiped out.
The Marquis de Sade probably died cumming.
Oscar Wilde died probably without a smile on his face.
Gandhi and Capone.
Lizzie Borden and good Nietzsche.
Anais Nin and Anne Frank.
Judas – the one in the bible.
And Judas, my Judas.
Copyright C. 2008 Lisa Marie Basile