Monday, February 21, 2011

10 – Protected by Police


for up to a year

the dictator decided to try his hand

at writing a romance


dragging tails through puddles

the harbour rats

carefully plan another spree of crime


feeling like you

sitting in the world

blatant, indiscrete

against common decency


criminals sleep

tucked in beds

children starve


protected by police

is slightly worse

than not being protected at all


I push through paparazzi

with my banjo and fiddle

bluegrass festival main stage


health care for all

makes me okay

pay taxes


police serve, protect, investigate

protect us from them


free starlight tours

all winter

Saskatoon shines


we fear everyone but

the oil industry devours the earth

the thin blue line separating us from savagery


protected by police,

by privilege

I am the law


Mubarak crumbles

the cardinals tremble

the pervert lived undisturbed


only the other police

mean nothing in this lawless land

he gathered gold and flew to Canada


protected by police from police

losses regularly

sound like an oxymoron



Ralph Kolewe, Shannon Maguire, Brian Bartlett, Jamie Reid, Kathleen Betts, Priscilla Brett, Jacob Wren, Tim Posgate, Todd Bruce, Warren Dean Fulton, Andréa Ledding, Alison Starkey, John Barlow, Catherine Heard, Gary Barwin, Andrew Topel, Joseph Brown, Miekal And, Natalee Caple, Laurie Anne Fuhr, Richard Rathwell, Harold Spooky Pollack III, Nicolas Béaud, Kemeny Babineau, Linda Steer

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