Welcome to Pandora
in a box when hindsight
rarely helps Detective
Epimetheus Brown
solve any cases known
as cold case files the dead
Left riddled with bullets
puzzles his desk with stacks
of unresolved murders
Consider his brother
Prometheus lucky
knowing just how to live
Only to face each day
his fate his punishment
within his own prison
Made for holding such men
known for their titanic
faults each in their own way
Enter their character
background and files appear
on the computer screen
Their crimes are ego-based
their personalities
attached as neck to head
Only a guillotine
could remove such hubris
from their well-known blunders
Pretend you never met
these men of ambition
though their ubiquity
Adds their names to a club
where they wear their status
on their sleeve as is done
Nowhere else but circles
such as their own a club
where no one gets a say
Despite the fact they all
have their chain of command
none are considered green
Officers in a corps
not military-based
with a pat on the back
Recognition is made
rest assured their handshake
means more than a fist bump
Argue not with these men
they are hollow within
these men without pity
Insane as social fools
accept privilege as theirs
to carry like a sack
No one feels their burden
their need to stay on top
and make lesser men jump
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