Alcatraz
The words,
etched on the cell wall
a lifetime ago, contained a truth
wrought by pain and loss.
“No one is innocent”
As I thought about the author
I watched the tourists,
oblivious of their own guilt,
pass hurriedly, never noticing
the crude engraving.
SMG
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