For Richard
The following poems were created from collaged erasures of letters from Richard Masterson. Our two-year correspondence ended once Richard was killed by the state of Texas on January 20, 2016. Ample evidence suggests he is innocent.
[if I live today]
if I live today mostly quiet
if a person can sing
if you get away from the city
if you’ve robbed any churches
if you’ve thought about this
if it is fiction or none fiction
if I get a date that opens all the doors
if you are doing peppers and onions
if they say no
if you put a pretty label on a bottle
if this is all there is for me
then tomorrow will start
