clarence darrow pleaded for the life of leopold and loeb. he said:

why did they kill little bobby franks?

not for money.

not for hate.

they killed him

because somewhere

in the infinite processes

which go into the making of the boy or the man,

something slipped.

something has slipped

not only in chicago.

something has slipped in towns everywhere across america,

in maine and in kansas,

in oregon and indiana and vermont,

something has slipped and as a result

we are all

sliding

back toward the dark ages.