Death Row, Arizona
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A POEM BY EFREN MEDINA
Death Row, Arizona
LOVE AND THE 33 CENT STAMP
The letter was written alone with hope. Folded, sealed,
in a white envelope. You would have sent it.
If you had a stamp.
But instead, you left it on your desk.
Laying next to the lamp.
Two days passed, then three. But after all it was just a
letter to me. Just a letter you held in your precious
hands. So important to me, but you don't understand?
Four days, a week, then a month passed.
Until that unmailed letter one day caught your eye !!
So you picked it up. And ran off to the mail.
To send a few words of Love. To your man in jail.
Well the letter got there. But I'm sorry to say.
It got there late by exactly one day.
For your man he waited, but he waits no longer.
His poor heart wasn't harder, nor stronger.
So he died in a dark prison camp. Never knowing that
Your love had the value of a 33 cent stamp.
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