Saturday, August 19, 2017

the courthouse fashion

at the courthouse
you see the cats in their
new
unfitted shirts
and loose jeans,
baggy suits with
hard shoes,
barely broken in,
dress coats and pants
borrowed
for the day.
a wrong colored tie
askew to one side.
somehow the judge will
see this effort,
they believe,
and ease the pain,
lessen
the penalty for drinking
and driving,
malicious wounding,
or being a dead
beat dad, or a mom
with sticky fingers.

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