#pubdate 2012-07-13 15:27:53 -0700 #title Your Honor #LISTtitle Your Honor #author Kuwasi Balagoon #SORTauthors Kuwasi Balagoon, #SORTtopics poetry, #source Retrieved on July 13, 2012 from [[http://www.urbanguerilla.org/balagoon/yourhonor.html][www.urbanguerilla.org]] #lang en your honor since i’ve been convicted of murder and have taken time to digest just what that means after noting what it means to my family and how it affects people who read the newspapers and all i see now that i’ve made a terrible mistake! and didn’t approach this trial in a respectful, deliberate or thoughtful manner didn’t take advantage of the best legal advice and based my actions on irrelevant matters which i can see now in a much more sober mind had nothing to do with this case i must have been legally insane thinking about: the twenty five murders of children in atlanta since Wayne Williams’ capture the recent murder of a man in boston by the police the recent murders of two in chicago by police the shooting of a five-year-old little boy in suburban calif the lynchings in alabama the mob murder of a transit worker in brooklyn the murders of fourteen women in boston feeling that this is evidence of something and that there must be a lesson in all this — i thought murder was legal