![]() A Variation Upon The Cowboy Junkies' "Black Eyed Man"A Poem by W.k.kortasThey’d
had him dead to rights for poisoning the well, Least
wise as far as they reckoned, His
fingerprints all over the pail (Not
the only set, but there in a goodly number nonetheless) And
footprints more-or-less conforming To
his boots in size and tread And
perhaps all that wasn’t stitched up as tight As
the sheriff’s boys would have liked it, But
there were other factors, Things
inferred and whispered It
being a place and time where truth Was
a sufficiently malleable thing (There
was also the testimony of one woman, A
lover, perhaps, or at least in her own visions, Whose
sworn statement was punctuated With
wild gesticulations and shrieking denunciations As
to how the accused had shredded all vows holy and otherwise, The
whole thing close enough to madness That
it was surreptitiously removed from the record) And
the trial was a brief, perfunctory affair The
defense attorney literally in shock From
the cavalier manner his objections were waved away, His
motions for mistrial and subsequent appeal Disappearing
into some void of bored court clerks and paralegals, The
upshot of which was one man Fitted
with an unappealing cravat Paraded
before a sufficient gathering of onlookers (But
a quieter affair than such things normally were, The
harsh cacophony of the cicadas, String
section tuning for some discordant symphony, Rising
above the hum of the attendant mass) And
as the proceedings rambled onward Towards
its unwelcome conclusion, The
guest of honor grimly mused As
to how restoring of the water table and its potability Would
do little to put things to right. © 2022 W.k.kortasReviews
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2 Reviews Added on July 29, 2022 Last Updated on July 29, 2022 Author![]() W.k.kortasParts Unknown. Our high school wrestling teams were unbeaten for decades.AboutAs I am every bit as much a mercenary b*****d as the next guy, you can now find a collection of my poems, entitled The Romeo Letters & Other Poems, available for purchase at https://www.createspace.co.. more..Writing
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