I woke up one morning and saw a news story that 37 years after his conviction for obscenity, Lenny Bruce had been pardoned by the governor of New York. It led me wonder what other pardons were forthcoming. So I wrote a poem.
Good News
In the morning New York
Overturned a 1964
Obscenity conviction
That hounded Lenny
Bruce to the grave.
By afternoon the whores
Of Holland had voted
Van Gogh the sexiest
Man in history
And just this evening
The Catholic Church
Announced Galileo is
No longer under house arrest.
Press conferences were
Scheduled but all three
Insisted on remaining
Dead.
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