Compelling,
However Insufficient
How humble birth,
how uncle, how single mom [how jeans,
unfit for the twenty-first century]
Sagging insufficient for the Arresting Officer
How the
unconscious, an aggravation, Sir [how confused, unforeseen,
out-of-focus]
Burdens babbling night terrored preschool memories
How the sap too
slow, the roots too wound [how winds panic through the branches]
Strewn above a tattered wet hanging cord
How a brother,
neighborhood, posse [como la escuela que no lleve
aprovechar]
No
importa ni papas al oficio del arresto
How the cuffs,
ignorant, video cams, blind [how
a squad car’s blinking iridescent blue]
Commiserates without empathic effect in the police report
Commiserates without empathic effect in the police report
How ma lawif, ma hol
damn lawif [how ingathering words
are inadequate]
Compelling
however
insufficient for the Arresting Officer
