Laureate's Defence

LAUREATE'S DEFENCE

Smoothly sincere

I am poetry's Speer

Doing ballet with the facts.

The judges look stern,

They don't want to learn

They also had stocks in the camps.

Jeez, we only had slaves

Hell, they sometimes got paid

It's not like we wanted to kill.

But next to the dock

In a coffin-shaped box

The evidence is solemn and still.

Why then, why then,

In my many play-pens

Did I not learn the value of work?

I guess I didn't defer

To leave my options preferred,

And left the sweating to jerks.

- Finn Harvor

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Originally appeared in Former People