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The Dangling Man.(Poem)
THE DANGLING MAN after the execution of Colin Ross at the Melbourne Jail in 1922 for the rape and murder of 12 year old schoolgirl Alma Tirschke At the end of the failed gallows fall and the miscarriage of the slip knot he struggles in a grotesque dance of choking air for half an hour. The discourse on his innocence or guilt ends in unconsecrated earth of the jail's cemetery filled in with only quicklime and dark. Too late--even the appeal for anything and the jury foreman's mouth is continually stopped on a unanimous verdict. Serious questions still hanging like giant meat hooks in ...
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