Judge Judy Not Practiced Here

by Larry Chamberlin   Mar 5, 2009


"Just give me the title," he told me.
"I want to be judge - for a few weeks.
I don't care for the work: telling people
What will be with their lives, as if I know
Better than they who live it - don't even care.
But once a judge, always so! The respect!
The title's the thing, the hell with the job."

So he ran, so he won, so he lived.
So short a time to learn humanity
So long a term to smarm in the glow;
Wasted life on grape-nuts insanity.

LMC 5 March 2009

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  • 15 years ago

    by Daisy if you do

    Wow!! A very unique write indeed. And these lines were very eye opening.

    What will be with their lives, as if I know
    Better than they who live it - don't even care

    ^^ So many people don't care what becomes of their lives. Wether it was fueled by anger or usually drugs they don't care one way or the other and who are we to direct that life for them except that it would hurt innocents in the process and that whats we claim to help.

    Great job on the write. Very much enjoyed

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