On the occasion of the life sentence against the butcher of Gohardasht Prison

Suicide at Gohardasht Prison

By Majid Naficy

In Memory of Jalil Shahbazi


They have wiped off
The stains of your blood
From Gohardasht Prison’s lavatory
And have buried your body still alive
With thousands of summer ‘88 victims
In the Cemetery of the Infidels.*

But I still feel
That shard of glass
In my body and soul
When you decided not to step
Into the hallway of death 
Lest faced with the question of a sharia judge:
“Are you an apostate or a Muslim?”
You turn left to the slaughter house
Or right to a miserable life.

                September 12, 2009

*- In summer 1988, ordered by Khomeini, thousands of political prisoners were secretly killed and buried in the Cemetery of the Infidels in Tehran and other places.

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