I would stand up but I won't quite yet,
there are many miles in this story to go
and I worry,
that someone times 2, or 4 or 6 or 8
will get off even
though they did
                                                     participate in a crime
against decency,
under the cover of
night and "oh please excuse their immaturity"

I have digested
what we all know,
evil is not to blame, evil did ooze and course
through their vane bodies,
inhuman shame, shame her honour is on your heads
                      and will be until you are all...
locked away in jail.

Your friends
don't do you
favours by
backing your
cause, words
hollow, flapping
jaws in the
face of boys
who acted
like the men
who fill their
lives, cowards
one and all.

Your getting all trained up to knock a senior citizen
down and take a purse
                         or worse knock them off their bike.