Notice

there’s a large notice board
in front of the court
I hadn’t looked at it for a long time,
so I went up and carefully examined
all the notices
at first, there was only me
later, when others came along
I stopped reading

there were people who’d murdered for money,
drug addicts, rapists
I saw 10 full-bodied characters in bold type
those printed names
had already been escorted to the execution ground
and shot, the youngest of them
was born in 1980

the notice was posted last August
it still looked fresh, the corpses of the dead criminals
had not yet decomposed
and were set to celebrate New Year
in the dirt

NOTICE