Be Not Among The Judges
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
Be not among the judges.
Swift with given opinions.
And above others who sit,
Doing this with their own backyards...
Overdue,
Of a thorough cleaning.
Knee deep of a neglecting to ignore,
The filth and the stench hoarded.
Representing the approval,
Of what they do many should not.
When admission once given,
As an untouchable up and beyond scrutiny.
Although,
Impressively cloaked in black robes.
Performances to conduct,
Deception, corruption, fraud and greed...
Is an exception that excludes,
Thieves, crooks and the ones who secretly...
Create their own laws and rules to disobey.
Especially,
If no one is watching the watcher...
Prepared to turn the lights out.
With a doing to permit fattened hands,
To remove as many cookies to feast...
Whenever they like to please themselves.
From a cookie jar.
And in their own backyards bury that jar.
Kept.
Done to keep hidden under the smell of B.S.
Knowing no one would suspect them to be,
Rule makers, law breakers and...
Honored criminals and skilled thieves.
Paid under the table to enable their sleaze.
Without surveillance or microscopic,
Head to toe profiling by those trained...
To suspect only the ones to follow,
More suitable to fit a fictioned image...
Of a crook with a noticeable ethnic heritage!
Quickly to label refugee, immigrant or addict.
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Written on May 17, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on May 17, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,304 |
Words | 256 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 7, 20 |
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