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.

[brynmawr1]

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
it's heart has stopped
and perform CPR

or presume it's innocence.




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

Hi Tiger,
I am here only to provide platitudes and hope that you are submitting to more than "poetry for fun".

[brynmawr1]

Hi Tiger,
Back again. In case my previous comment was too obscure, I find this poem to be very well done, as usual. I admire your ability to write so simply to such strong effect. I particularly like your juxtaposition of the bulldogs and "little cat fee" and the last line is brilliant. I am curious about your use of "it" as the subject in S2. I suspect you did because it relates to the dehumanization you are addressing in the poem. Anyway, really liked it.

Thanks,
bryn

[Tiger the Lion]

Hi Tiger,
Back again.  In case my previous comment was too obscure, I find this poem to be very well done, as usual.  I admire your ability to write so simply to such strong effect.  I particularly like your juxtaposition of the bulldogs and "little cat fee" and the last line is brilliant.  I am curious about your use of "it" as the subject in S2.  I suspect you did because it relates to the dehumanization you are addressing in the poem.  Anyway, really liked it.

Thanks,
bryn

Thanks Steve. At heart, this is a mostly whimsical statement on the opposing concerns of Officer Safety vs. Due Process. It's a serious debate that I may have approached too lightly. That's how it originally arrived in the "Fun" forum. I wanted to poke fun at "cops" without really feeling strongly enough to condemn them with a more serious thesis. 
Thanks for the comments,
Paul