Invitation
© Raymond Maxwell
The Queens Henchmen
request the pleasure of your company
at a Lynching to be held
at 23rd and C Streets NW
on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
just past sunset.
Dress: Formal, Masks and Hoods -
the four being lynched
must never know the identities
of their executioners, or what/
whose sin required their sacrifice.
A blood sacrifice
to divert the hounds -
to appease the gods -
to cleanse our filth and
satisfy our guilty consciences.
Arrive promptly at sunset
injustice will be swift.
there will be no trial,
no review of evidence,
no due process, and no
accountability.
Read the rest here.
I don't think this man wants to fade away without being heard. Guess he was chosen as a proper scapegoat because he was a) a man b) close to retirement so he wouldn't mind anyway. But maybe they were unlucky and foudn someone who actually cared about his name.