The world's a funny place because nobody cares,
heaven knows, at least, not until it's much too late,
even then, nobody watches the evening news,
wishful thinking someone will find you in this well,
only nobody walks around on private land,
really, just the police, by then it's much too late,
little anyone cares if they don't watch the news,
don't you know, everyone has their own excuses,
seems easier to plead the fifth than bear witness,
a court of law judges innocent and guilty,
forget justice, no one knows how to interpret,
understand, and mete out due process of the law,
notice how the police rarely get convicted,
not that they are above the law, as is the case,
yes, with ambassadors and foreign diplomats,
politics plays a role in ethics where justice
lacks means to contravene, power as politics,
as means to override a verdict in one court,
courts of appeals can strike down a verdict to free
even the most heinous criminal by mistake,
because of an error made presenting a case,
even attorneys make mistakes from time to time,
call it imperfection, call it fatigue, call it
anything but justice, unless politicians
undermine the system to get somebody off
scot-free, without taxing the system, so someone
escapes custody when they committed a crime,
nobody gives a damn until movements are born
out of the mistreatment of persons of color,
blind as justice portrays herself in works of art,
only the status quo represents the people
denied of due process in a world gone astray,
yes, the blindfold is real but watch out for her sword,
create a character with sword and set of scales
and blindfold this person to see what they do right,
reason demands logic, think a caricature
evades truth when static, put her into motion,
systems fail when people put carts before horses.
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