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Just a second…
The shine of the officer’s badge
Authoritative posture
Hit me like a candle in backwoods darkness
The sound of the leather holster ‘round his
Waist
Familiar
Jaw clenching
Fist forming
Gun
Club
Flashlight
Handcuffs
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(The cavalry as it were)
Johnny law’s grubby paws
Knifing me
“I don’t mean to embarrass you” he said
I stood there in a gray
Shirt and oil-stained denim
Naked
Up, down
Up and down
Around and around
Cupped
Into the sleeves
Under my legs
One officer flipped couch cushions
Smashed my new ball cap
“So what’s the situation here?” he asked
“The situation…?” I thought
Blood is rolling
Like the water my eggs boil in
Voices…well hers doing her best impression of me
Bombastic
Blasting and ripping through the paper thin walls
Feet…well hers stomping through the paper roofs
Of this shit apartment complex
Jesus
It’s been a few years since the
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Was on my door
“Are those your posters?”
“Yeah” I said
“Cool” he answered
“Well it seems like this can be resolved”
I thought to myself
“No Mr. Policeman, I don’t believe it can”
“You two understand that I don’t want to come back”
If he did have to make a second visit
One of us
Would have some new steel friends
We went to sleep angry
As usual
I consider him an old friend
I don’t miss him
But it’s been a few years since his
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Was on my door
