"FACINGFACES 2002 - 04" SELECTED POETRY

ORDER OF PROTECTION

It could be typed by a child:
ORDER OF PROTECTION

flimsy piece of paper meant to be
a shield
a barrier
a defense.

Oh yes, Mr. Lawmaker, of course it works!
Just ask the lady with her brains blown out
all over the used car she was just about to sell;
hers was neatly tucked into her purse,
as safe and sound as she thought it made her.
Her husband pulled the trigger, and
there was not a drop of blood on her
ORDER OF PROTECTION!

Just ask the girl who was chopped up
and buried all over her suburban neighborhood;
hers was in the pocket of her Calvin's. Had she time
to pull it out, I'm sure her boyfriend would have taken flight,
his axe and insanity held off yet again.. After all, it is an
ORDER OF PROTECTION!

Just ask the woman who has moved a dozen times,
uprooting her kids, losing jobs, going broke,
simply to escape the wrath of a man enamoured of her;
hers was lost in move 5, perhaps 6. She was
too busy running to notice.
And she is still too busy running to stop for a new
ORDER OF PROTECTION!

Just ask me. Mine is right here by my side;
next to my gun.
Just in case the law doesn't work....
again.

BANG

Oh yes, Mr. Lawmaker....

BANG!!!!


LORI WILLIAMS
USA
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