Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: At the time of his [Orlando Haws'] death,

Rebecca [Haws] said, she and Orlando were separated, but she is now eight months pregnant with their son.

"He didn't get much of an education past the 10th-grade level, but he was a dreamer," she said. "He always had big ideas about how to become famous. He was a terrific poet. He wrote several hundred poems about his entire incarceration and some were about me."

from The Sante Fe New Mexican: Wife: Slain man was poet with tragic past

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