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Logically, wouldn't it be the actual seven last words? (My God, why have you forsaken me?) I can't find it, but I didn't look terribly hard. I couldn't even find a picture.

Don't know if anyone is interested. But I found what I was looking for. Thought I would post it here.

What is the crime? Choosing not to exercise the right ot remain silent? Bringing up impolite subjects in public? Talking too loudly about white supremacist capitialist patriarchy ot something else unspeakable and being right on the money? Too loudly but lacking hysteria that makes for instant dismissability and easy valification? Illeagally possessing a clear voice that dosen't respond to gag treatments? Having a voice at all? What is the chare? Breaking an unwritten law that says "opposition is useless"? Violating every standard of passivity? Raising a black fist instead of a white flag? Believing in people's intelligence and ability to resist? Never thinking for a minute that that's a stretch? Terrifying the few with a consistency of commitment to the many? Is this the charge? Never capitualting, buckling, caving, confessing to invented offenses? Copping no pleas? Not playing along with a blatant set up so the hangmen can show clean hands? Is the crime not being a criminal? Failing to be eagar to accomplice? A suitably spectacular fall-guy? A canary that hits all the right notes? Refusing to lick the boots that crush heads? Knowing that to lick them is the same as wearing them, the smae asgetting kicked? Or is the crime being locked up but not kept off the streets? Defying neutralization time and time again? Not dying in solitary? Not dying there but getting stronger? Not willinly self-destructing in the face of excution? Setting the wrong example by going on living? Simply being? Not being broken? Not even beaten after being beaten? Is this the real crime, flying in the face of every expectation, every assumption of selfishness, every supposed instinct for self-preservation? Having an unacceptably strong definition of integrity? Strong enough to never beg pardon? Strong enough to not sell anyone down river? Strong enough to destroy a fantasy of how coersion should always succeed a model of how terror should work? Is the crime jamming the standard sequence in which fear produces dead silence? Is it refusing to mean what someone else demands, refusing to mean nothing, to just up and vanish? Is it humiliating the shameless into a frenzy of desperation in which all thats left for them to di is kill again, stage another public disappearance? Or is it the worst crime of all, inspiring others to fight back and forward every step of the way? What is the crime? All of the above? None of the above.

Its from the bckdrop for Seven Last Words. The text is by David Thorne. The play was wirected by Tamar Thorne at the Bread and Peuppet Theater, Vermont, August 1995.

I actually had to go back and find the magazine and photocopy the page that had the pic of the set! lol

I thought it was very spiffy also. I have it written, along with many other things, on my window. Yep, my window is full of writeing. I think it freaks my roomie out a little, but she'll live! lol