Margaret talking to herself
               Around midnight,
                28 January 1865


Accused

A murderer?

I kill, not murder.
Taking little girls
before their first blood,
that's murder.
Making little boys bleed,
walk funny, that is
murdering. Still
it don't help me none
when I see what I done,
Murder, a gray-eyed man,
Archibald Kinkead Gaines.
Cut a running man's heel,
slaughter a human will
is murder. Um,um.
A butcher knife is freedom.


(from Margaret by Nagueyalti Warren)