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Dear Mrs. Lilly

By

Chad Lilly

Dear Mrs. Lilly,


We regret to inform you

that your son is being indicted 

on several counts of 

thinking.



These charges are severe 

and carry penalties

up to and including:

execution. 



Several times we’ve tried

to rehabilitate 

his way of thinking,

all to no avail; Mrs. Lilly,

we feel your son is

incorrigible.



Currently he is being held

in an isolated cell . . . separate

from the rest of the inmates.

We feel this is safer

since you never know

what people like him

might do.



He seems determined,

set on a path contrary to our own, therefore,

twenty-four hour surveillance

is needed.



Currently, we’re monitoring 

his every thought, hoping

the medication will have some effect,

but as of yet . . . we are

without success . . .



yesterday’s urinalysis 

revealed trace elements of 

‘freewill.'

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