R.M. Dolin, 2016
Secret Police
Security comes with peril.
Those who protect and serve
sometimes don’t.
Truths we actively work to conceal
find ways of catching up.
Think of it as Newton’s Second Law
applied with human entropy.
The long pull of our past is
difficult to escape
and for whatever reason
seems to confront us when
we feel most safe.
With a joke gone bad
you can be mad
but what the hell.
If you haven’t experienced
God’s humor
it just means
you’re not out there
as much as you ought to be.
It’s probably also true
that before shadows
grow, you’re already
securely on
the shady side of the street.
Background poem from the “What Is To Be Done,” trilogy. Jake and Armando react to the prank pulled on them at the Albuquerque wine fiesta.
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