The EX police officer
Of the law
Is writing furiously
Like a crazy man.
Yellow pads
Are being filled
Page after page,
Minute after minute
Second after second
Witness after witness
Word after crazy word.
Now
What is he writing?
“Thou shall not kill”
100 x times
500 x times
1,000,000 x times,
Or
Is he writing
“It wasn’t 9 minutes
& 29 seconds”.
Or more
or less.
Because he doesn’t quite remember.
Or maybe
He’s trying to come up
With that perfect 1irst line
For all those dates
He’s goint to be
Invited on
In prison.
~ DE BA UE
