A Middle Time
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no expense is too great
to pay the bill of
that
crooked lawyer
who speaks so expertly
to a moaning jury of my peers
they are dazzled
I am also
these peers measure my face
“is he wolf or lamb?”
tears,
very fake
slip down my cheeks
filling glass after glass after glass
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