Its Day In Court

[Tiger the Lion]

Its Day In Court

A team
with automatic weapons
and body armor 
bursts into the building
like bulldogs in a butcher shop

then 
       inch,
              inch,
                     inch
                           toward the body 
                                                   on little 
                                                   cat 
                                                       feet.*


Not before it's appropriately
cuffed and frisked 
will they decide
its heart has stopped
and perform CPR

or presume its innocence.




* Appropriate credit to Carl Sandburg's "Fog" for injecting the "Fun" into this.