DUE PROCESS
give the Devil
his due
saw him hauled into
court for
every human rights
violation in
the book
mainly because
he wrote the book
(proudly proclaiming
we are
still
only half through it)
been up to his crimes
against us
since the beginning
of time
which i am here
to spin as
errors of omission, simple
misdemeanors
with this battery of lawyers
up against us
how on Earth could
guilt be proved
beyond
reasonable, terrible,
existential doubt
and with jury
of peers from
the ranks and files of
humanity
carefully conscripted
and that Jagger-
Richards song fatally ringing
in all
our ears
a convinction on
even the slightest and
most trivial and
totally indefensible
political offence
amongst all
of which he
stands accused of
commiting since
the dawn
of time itself
impoosible to get
the court
sure
to reject
upon which, as I open
my case for the defence,
would
bet my life and
immortal soul itself
so give the Devil his due
his day
in court and
trust the process
poems 2 die for 