My Committee Membership Dream

I volunteered
to be on the terminal punishment committee.
My job is to shoot the guilty.
It took me a
very long time to kill
my first prisoner.
I only did it after
the committee started to get
impatient. I just wandered
around the prison yard for weeks,
getting to know him better
until one day, finally,
I shot him in the head.
My second assignment
was faster. I am

gaining the emotional skill

and straightening out my loyalties.