"juries" poems
caveat! —bursting out as the fuse fetters away
wafting t'ward oil spills, tranquilized guns
with pace maker minds
and time to ****
sickle celled, graving shores
plead to crawl underground
through cascading bile and sedatives
that sift through these negatives
like bangled thieves
who crawl on broken knees
and lie idle under haunted bridges.
bouldered bones intertwine
or veins cut along a dotted line
caveat! cries the sayer's sooth,
for he says it scours and devours—
the slinking nightmare sleuth.
the tar is interrupted in carved equinoxes
soak in the crippled toxins
as the air becomes as thick as theophany
and tharm like grease in blood that take me in,
through ash and mud and
all the spider webs caving in
like delicate gorges forges beneath
nightmare sleuth reaching zenith
caveat, silhouettes
stretched out like oil in water
and this silicon tomb can hold me no longer
for i must break out before i am a goner
because it's a mistake that i'll never shake
your face turns opaque
and there was nothing in your eyes
but dripping flesh
wring out all your words for me
your jeers and your juries
but go cling to your crutch
your kings and your qualms
and the church that burns
in its hallow vacancy
for none can resist the urge
that thieves its delinquents from catatonic catacombs
and quagmire junctions
where the swamp will **** you in
and festering sweat sticks like guilt to your skin
and hell is a nightclub where every loss is a life
and heaven's a daydream with your neck to the knife
it needs no rhyme or reason
and every slip of your broken lip
just lose your grip and give in to the treason
would you rather burn at the stake
than suffer your cement heart break
with no reason or rhyme
it's just the weight of the season
backdrop collapse
railroads unfolding
and like a cell storm the train
is coming your way
and slinks away like a nightmare sleuth
it just takes one swipe of the claw
or one bite of the tooth
and it drags you in
feel the sidewalk sleeping
and the blinking lights creeping
above the overpass
and the cold wind reeling--
it'll be your last.
Nov 18, 2012
Nov 18, 2012 at 6:36 PM UTC
the choppers blades
unaware
the cleansing of color
twist in the wind
like the means of unfit mothers
champions
of unfounded snare
who's revolution
of her weighted intent
should be held to account
when justness is spent
the judges, juries
and executioners trail
hovering the bluster
as appellants flail
<------------->
the choppers blades
unaware
the cleansing of color....
Jan 15, 2019
Jan 15, 2019 at 8:57 AM UTC
Strange, except true.
Some folks refuses to face the real truth.
Whenever asked, who profited more from racism?
Since Civil War and probably before.
We all within the real world know this answer.
Using the politicians present and of the days of old.
They craft legislature to hold back some.
Just like laws created to banned throw from counters and selected water fountains.
Where the water were the same color?
So, who profited more from racism?
Presently, we heard "Black Lives Matter" which isn't against any particular group.
But as with any controversy some complains and miss the point.
Which were addressing verdicts decided by juries in courts.
Where some are dead on?
And others completely wrong.
Then like a Four Tops songs "It's The Same Old Song".
The power that be always complains they being done wrong.
Without addressing, who profited more from racism?
Families with good connection.
Where their child should be serving time?
Instead on probation seeking some type treatment.
Because the power of wealth works decisive in those decision.
Facts, has been written and analyzed several times.
That white often don't how to handle conflicts with others.
Then when you bring this up.
Many use the reverse racism tricks.
Failing to comprehend many white judges courts decision that got off many.
We seen this in Alabama and Mississippi during the sixties.
And continue to in the present.
If up for votes whites would revert back to segregation.
Cause been on a competing level they finding out education truly matters.
Then they had better schools in the past.
And was the creator of white flight.
But history has pointed out during days of old they terrorized blacks during the nights.
So who profited off of racism?
Of course this is just one person's question?
Oct 22, 2015
Oct 22, 2015 at 9:17 PM UTC
Kicking pine cones , hands in pockets with my favorite scarf on ..
Outfitted like a business man with something important to decide ,
a lawyer testing a juries intellect , like an important subversive agent with a clandestine government ...
Walking the fence line , dressed to save the world someday , my flashy duds turning heads , yet their only clothes , and clothes never did make the man so they say !
Fancy leather gloves , gold cuff links , cashmere sweater with well planned schemes ..
Upscale hero with a prominent address , four star restaurants , high end assets ..
Caviar and red wine , penthouse vista .. Fancy cigars and first class tickets ..
I'm still Cocoa Cola , cheese and crackers , homemade biscuits ..
Forever overalls , laying hens and sour mash whiskey ..
Jan 3, 2016
Jan 3, 2016 at 8:18 PM UTC
If those that was wrong was convicted.
Then many wouldn't protest the verdict.
Or have to say police lives matter.
All lives matters, in terms of human respect.
Too many times crooked cop exist because the good cops refuses to report them.
So they go on scheming money from the drug dealers.
Many with their own stories to tell themselves.
Yes, a shake down many citizens knows so well.
Yes, police lives matters.
Simply cause of the danger of the job.
But you have a few shaky ones quick to pull the trigger.
Who don't know the excuse used constantly?
Which is "I felt threaten for my life".
Even if shot forty feet away.
And the object in hand requires them to be inches closer to harm them.
Most juries are sympathy cases to law enforcers.
Especially when the evidence convicts them.
And you hear a not guilty verdict.
For every innocent victim abused , killed by mistakes.
Their life was just as important too.
And we hardly hear them crying "their lives matter".
Yes, police lives matters.
Not because of the job.
But because some went the distance to severe and protect.
And was wise on when to use their assigned weapon.
Dec 27, 2014
Dec 27, 2014 at 10:08 PM UTC
I'm seeking justice.
Not to clear my name.
But, I'm if we committed the same crime.
Why aren't we serving the same amount f time?
How can he get twenty years?
And I get ten years more.
This is the injustice that I wants to explore.
We stood before the same judge and confessed.
Sure, we had different lawyers representing us.
Still that no reason I was given more time.
Who proclaim racism doesn't rear it hidden eyes?
No, I'm not upset with my friend for good represntation.
I'm just mad about the situation.
So, I'm seeking justice.
And will to the very end.
Least until they reduce my sentence, by ten.
What are you proven if I serve more?
I still be fighting until things gets changed.
And, I'll be doing it in justice name.
So, don't get mad if I make the nes?
I just wants to say many juries and judges are complete fools.
Feb 17, 2011
Feb 17, 2011 at 8:05 AM UTC
Challenge it.
Don't downplay racism like it doesn't exist.
Yes, challenge it.
Don't matter what direction it comes from.
Or race.
More likely the race they speak negatively about.
Is also the race they afraid to face.
Listen, there's none so idiotic than a bigot.
Who only strength of stupidity comes from his supporters?
Who stands by then until their fate of consequences comes.
Yes, one group leads to the challenge of bigotry.
Explored it more for the world to see.
Remember, news once avoided confronting it.
Well, except for various black press.
None has to this day explain the four beautiful youth killed in the Alabama church.
A house of worship for people.
So what GOD?
Did these weak white males serve?
We know with all white juries during the sixties that justice wasn't served.
Why?
Who had to live among the bigots but them the most.
It's wasn't Trumpy that showcase white hate.
It came more to light when Prez. Obama led the government and it slowly came back into view.
One thing all minorities are aware?
When push comes to shove?
They the first reaching out for love.
And get more enraged when minorities treat them in the same way.
With an evil for evil reaction.
Remember, to challenge racism?
Don't downplay it.
For sickness get worse when you avoid the medicine of love.
Sep 22, 2018
Sep 22, 2018 at 6:07 PM UTC
A man broke into my house and killed my entire family.
Because of his corrupt lawyer, he was found not guilty.
He killed another family and was found not guilty a second time.
His lawyer convinced the juries to find him innocent of the crimes.
I was going to have vengeance by killing him and I was really going to do it.
But God was just as angry as I was and he beat me to it.
The killer got third degree burns all over his body when he was engulfed by flames.
God made him pay because he was an abomination who brought nothing but shame.
I went through hell when he was found not guilty, it was too much to sustain.
He survived for four days after being burned and he was in excruciating pain.
I was working on night shift and that's why I wasn't able to protect my family.
God's vengeance was worse than my own, that's why the killer died in agony.
Jun 20, 2015
Jun 20, 2015 at 9:04 PM UTC
We rise,
on ocassion,
to drink the blood
of our brothers.
The original vampires
drink the blood of youth,
and bring about the
wandering
and
ill-placed
musings
of old age.
With bitterness
we control our own destinies,
it is not fate
that is cynical with luck,
it is us,
cynical because of fate.
When we take control,
finally
in the last days of men,
we will see compassion
for what it really was,
the Jesus,
the salvation,
the temptation
that we never wasted
our energy on.
I still think
that demons crowd the plains
of our thought,
like gazelles
waiting to be gorged upon.
Demons
keep us down,
keep us in the waterfall
of stupidity
and
self-loathing.
Don't look back,
the demons take control then,
they hold sway
when the juries of our souls
let them talk
without consequence.-
Apr 13, 2012
Apr 13, 2012 at 9:29 PM UTC
The sins of the father and the son must be punished
Allow the juries hand to be corrupt and
Dispense their magical omnipotence.
But taste the finality of man as the hammer draws near
To consequence; and question
The strangers leer in corrupt composure.
The judges sweat melds to the handle, he grips
Hard to the justice of his resolve, as
It slips beneath the bench
And now to the audience, you decide
To solidify a man in a statue to justice or
Grant redemption and torments respite.
Because I put to you that,
the sins of the father and the son must be punished.
Jun 28, 2020
Jun 28, 2020 at 2:20 AM UTC
Tired Of This Conversation
By: Cedric McClester
Another unarmed person is killed
By a cop
It’s usually someone black or brown
Is it not?
It shouldn’t matter what the color
It’s just has to stop
Before another person
Gets choked or shot
Say you’re tired of this conversation
Well so am I
But I don’t wanna see another person
Needlessly die
No matter what the rational
Or the reason why
You can’t bring ‘em back to life
With a tried alibi
No one said a policeman’s job
Isn’t hard
But that’s no reason why we
Have to be on guard
If we’re black or brown
In order to ******
The fact that we’re in fear of them
For a start
Say you’re tired of this conversation
Well so am I
But I don’t wanna see another person
Needlessly die
No matter what the rational
Or the reason why
You can’t bring ‘em back to life
With a tired alibi
You’re tired of this conversation
We are too
But all across this nation
There’s people on the move
Hoping the situation somehow
Will improve
So that we can put the needle
Back in the groove
Say you’re tired of this conversation
Well so am I
But I don’t wanna see another person
Needlessly die
No matter what the rational
Or the reason why
You can’t bring ‘em back to life
With a tired alibi
Grand juries will sit down
But never indict
The perpetrating policemen
And that ain’t right
When they come back with no true bill
That just incites
And moreover it denies
Their civil rights
Say you’re tired of this conversation
Well so am I
But I don’t wanna see another person
Needlessly die
No matter what the rational
Or the reason why
You can’t bring ‘em back to life
With a tired alibi
(c) Copyright 2015, Cedric McClester. All rights reserved.
Apr 22, 2015
Apr 22, 2015 at 2:21 PM UTC
As long as you resign you won't face prosecution.
It must be great to be an officer of law enforcement to serve and protect.
Even if you're surrounded among bad apples.
The cops that racist and get caught up in crime.
As long as you resign you won't face prosecution.
The cops that wrongly **** suspects and the juries support them.
When evidence of facts convicts them.
As long as you resign you won't face prosecution.
Notice, something here?
Sometimes you wonder who the real criminals?
The District Attorney like many judges works for the same division called law.
And most likely not brave enough to make those tough decisions to prosecute.
As long as they resign they won't be prosecuted to injustice.
For rapes
For keeping drug dealers money
For spousal abuse
For violating suspects rights
Even for being slightly racist
For hardly anything.
It's great to be a police officer.
Until the city gets sued and lose.
Apr 27, 2016
Apr 27, 2016 at 12:01 PM UTC
When have police officers ever had a great reputation?
Just when?
When many of one race has never adapted to changes within society.
During the segregation days of injustice by many.
And harassment by others.
It's to be expected sooner or later police would face problems.
In all honesty white cops doesn't know how to approach black males.
Or even Latinos.
Just speaking truth.
To serve and protect means more than that.
It's also means earning respect.
Which we know isn't always given.
Many whites feel very uncomfortable within groups of minorities.
Just speaking truth.
Those that does have been raised to respect everyone.
Then you have some that feels no respect for anyone.
Just been honest.
Mobsters have had officers on the take.
And even in present times.
Many still dilute the position with criminal behavior.
Compare minorities cops to white cops.
And this shoot to **** is less among them.
It's all within the talk and people's skills.
Sure white population support them.
They get harass less from them.
And it shows.
While they more suspicious by some minorities.
Just speaking truth.
It hurts, when truth is exposed.
But than many juries are not wised to convict.
When evidence points to a fair deal of justice.
Let not a badge dictate them innocent.
When facts states truthfully that they are guilty.
And than you ponder why folks says, where is the justice?
Admit many are racist.
Admit many deserve to be in prison.
Face the facts.
Notice which race commit the same crime as minorities.
But gets a different sentence for the same crime.
Just speaking truth.
For truth lies within.
Then again, some officers will be offended.
That's just the way it is.
Truth hurts.
Especially when it directed toward them.
Dec 26, 2014
Dec 26, 2014 at 7:28 PM UTC
Locked me in a cage?
Yes but here’s the key, take it.
Covered my mouth?
Okay yes but your hands are free
here’s a mic for you, if you need it.
Tied my hands and feet together?
alright but here’s the box cutter for you.
Where am i?
you have a gps on your phone.
” unknown destination “
Wait ! but whose’s phone is this?
it’s yours
No it isn’t !
how did i get here?
What do you mean ? you’re at home.
no ? we’re near a cliff ?
and why am i dressed like this?
****
where are we now?
you’re at a courtroom,
you’ve been put on trial.
for wha-?
NOW STAND UP AND TAKE THE OATH.
I , tony , swear that the evidence
that i shall give, shall be the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me , god.
Is this you? did you do this?
who are you trying to be?
you are living off a lie
Yes- no ! wait!
This isn’t m-!
BANG BANG BANG!
SILENCE ! ORDER ! ORDER!_
Okay Anthony , that’s enough from you.
Juries , do you have a verdict?
Yes, judge.
what’s your verdict?
The charges against the defendant , Anthony.
We find the defendant , guilty!
no ! THIS IS SOME KIND OF JOKE!
GUARDS! TAKE HIM AWAY !
I hereby sentence Anthony to life!
CASED CLOSED
Nov 19, 2019
Nov 19, 2019 at 6:05 PM UTC
Oh, pretty black Americans, we aware many disputes your importance.
Just like they did the protest of Martin Luther King or the eloquent of Malcolm X.
Many whites quick to deny your cause by stating all lives matter.
Except, it's strange that those criticizing BLM barely tackle the racist white groups that holds more horrors than the BLM protesters.
Political figures most white barely ever speak of the foolish with guns that kills students in school.
Or bomb abortion clinics like many, many whites have done.
Not brave enough to attack the NRA because they needs votes.
A group that proclaims their importance gains negative from whites.
Who barely brave to walk within their group.
Similar to fame black colleges BLM holds a purpose when those cries all lives matters.
For whites hadn't faced nothing similar to the killings of minority youth.
We seen church bombed
We know through the years black males hanged from trees.
And all white juries scared and agreed that the perpretators done a good thing.
Why?
Does a group mainly vocalizing themselves of fear?
Scare those that lives safely under theirs created rules.
Jul 10, 2016
Jul 10, 2016 at 7:01 PM UTC
I can smell the wax burning
20 candles I dont want to blow out
In only 5 hours
I'll have learned 20 more lessons
On how to be a man
They never teach this in school
How to provide for your own
How to love without getting hurt
Its only mathematics and history
Neither which will save me
From dreading the day
I hear infant cries from across the hall
How do prepare for adulthood
When the world only wants to watch you fail
I have 20 birthday candles to blow out
On only a donut
While I'm speeding through traffic
Rushing to work
Because my alarm didn't go off
How do just grow up
When nobody teaches you about life
Its not a manual you can read
Its not a book you can check out
Its just something you learn the hard way
So before you ask me who gave me
Black eyes and broken bones
Know life has been beating the **** out me
Because I was never ready
For a life where only you
Stood before judges and juries
Sentenced to death
For murdering the voices
You grew tired of hearing
20 years I've struggled
Nothing ever got better
I'm still begging
Someone teach me
Before I face tomorrow
Feb 9, 2016
Feb 9, 2016 at 8:39 PM UTC
Injustice by justice officials gather serious attention.
But never dealt justice by juries or judges.
Scandal, within the Oakland Police department of serious consequences..
Some deserving of serious justice from the District Attorney.
If "Joe Blow" or "John Doe" was involved with a minor.
Instantly he be seeing serious charges and rightly so.
Now , here you have high rank and file and lower rank sleeping with a teen ********** when seventeen and even after see turned eighteen.
Giving clues when undercover working was being down that might even arrest her.
When investigated?
And facts found that level charges to the officers.
They terminated some and suspend others.
Still, where's the justice?
Of those involved during her minor years.
Many serving time in prison for these charges.
So does the badge gives officers just as wrong rights to not face criminal charges?
Justice must be served to right this wrong.
But than wearing that badge have seen many get free card passes from the District Attorneys many of times.
I guess justice is blind.
When those in offices doesn't bring serious charges.
Sep 8, 2016
Sep 8, 2016 at 1:39 PM UTC
The dispiriting prison bar is now your frontier,
What left your character drowned in blood,
The environment draws you with fear,
Your living corpse plunge to the befoul scud.
The critics, the juries, virtually invisible enemies,
You need to hear their loathe in the darkness,
Around all these hopeless entities,
It's a woeful depiction of inferno.
They got knives of deception and treachery,
As you turn your back, they stab, you kneel,
Wish you die in a blink, yet torture gradually,
You have entirely deviated the vocation to heal.
Victims learn from mistakes,
You never did,
They will hurt you again for all sakes,
But then you realize you're stuck amid.
Jan 19, 2019
Jan 19, 2019 at 1:31 AM UTC
It's come to the furies
no trial, no juries
judgement for sin and for crime
nails upon crosses, no matter the losses
a nickel, a quarter
a dime
Guilt from the doves
no caring, no love
for what brings a warrior low
pray that the end, and quietly send
too someplace like heaven
we go
The pauper is owed
for harrowed the road
that's led a dark soul too adieu
dark is the night, unable to right
did we do all the things
we could
do?
Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 at 9:22 PM UTC
Now, if anyone should be claiming this line of "I Felt Threaten For My Life."
It should be the black male instead of the law enforcer.
Obviously, history holds the various truth to why?
Maybe, all minorities males should be fearful.
Why put soldiers on trial for their assaults in war?
When we know they facing a hostile threat of the battle field against enemies.
But not rogue killing officers quick to use a gun.
Then holler they felt threaten for their lives.
Anyone of any race should use this line when confronted.
But then you might got get a kind decision like many officers.
Who must know before placing a badge of their chest?
That you placing yourself in a vital place of fear.
TRUTH BE KNOW, officers taught to use the "Felt threaten" for their life.
Whenever they must use their guns.
Only honesty is that most juries are of a certain shade.
Which mirror the group they are trying to convict.
Jun 17, 2017
Jun 17, 2017 at 10:10 PM UTC
Strange, strange thing.
That news takes a twisted story and reported to the public.
Without comprehending that many doesn't listen to the medical establishment.
Some will eat, where they chose?
And could careless about the calories.
Some people just don't pick up weight.
Why?
Because our bodies are different.
Same with people that live to be a hundred.
And states , it's because they didn't smoke.
While many of us know others that live to be a hundred.
And smoked and did it all.
Parties like life was built to enjoy.
Strange that doctors loves to advise.
But doesn't follow their own advice.
Whom hadn't notice the medical employees smoking?
Even has an assigned spot.
And they advertise scary commercial to try to tell people to stop.
Heck, whatever happen to the word EDUCATION?
It was taught to a various of us in this nation.
Strange that the news tries to mold people according to one view.
What works for one?
Won't works for others?
Do you see the news trying to change to suit the other channels?
Strange, strange that certain folks are getting wealthy off odd ball decision.
Smokers charging that the cigarette they smoked cause them cancer.
So the sues the cigarette company and win a decision.
Heck, if that the case.
Then many parents and children's should sue the candy companies.
For each cavities their child get and have to visit the dentist.
Why not?
Sympathy plays a lot in juries paying adults for that smoking habits.
Then, with the candy lawsuits, they might try to blame the parent.
Who could then bring a lawsuit against the grocery store?
Strange, strange, strange.
Then maybe it's just me.
Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 9:38 AM UTC
Live and learn.
See and hear.
When injustice isn't seen.
Then violence of retaliation appears.
Many innocent people knows judges and lawyers are one.
Whether it's the defense lawyer or the prosecutor.
If laws states what's against the rules of authority for one?
Then it should apply to those applying the rules too.
So it's shocking that many think violence wouldn't occurred.
When juries is coming back with injustice decisions when evidence points to guilt.
Courts, is where you go seeking justice.
But coming back with rage from oddity decisions.
Aug 27, 2016
Aug 27, 2016 at 8:21 PM UTC
Okay, one thing is cleared to society.
Violence against officers in blue has caught important people attention
Now, what's the punishment?
For those that goes outside the rules of oath and law simply can resign from the force and face no justice at all.
While some are surprised by these outlaws shooting the proud in blue.
Many saw this coming when injustice isn't getting guilty verdicts.
One choked and rules states its against the law.
But justice came to no avail.
Please tell?
Evidence was on tape for the world to see.
One shot in a automobile following orders given.
Still nothing has occurred at present.
Obviously the jury is one makeup of folks that's not brave enough to level conviction.
Mmmmmmm, reminds you of juries of the fifties and sixties.
Same makeup of the same folks.
But this to be expected when laws are passed for citizens to carry legal with permit weapons.
Where many think they tough with than they ever was without.
Please tell.
When will justice prevail.
Blame not the race stating "Lives Matters" cause they being the ones facing punishment the most from the law.
While the other bribes their way through the criminal system.
Jul 23, 2016
Jul 23, 2016 at 10:48 PM UTC
Another death.
Another white cop involved.
Another black citizen's dead.
And the video tells the truth.
But the case takes on racial tones.
When you see it's one of own and the folks that judge guilt.
Say the cops done nothing wrong.
Here we go again?
To see juries get the message wrong.
Then the press plays apart of injustice.
Instead of hammering the politicians will why?
They report of the so called good guys.
We see this many of times.
Especially when they need a police source on the inside.
But than f they should return fire upon the cops.
Watch the press report the story from a different view.
After all these are the folks sworn to protect you and I.
But there comes a time when rage will roar.
Then none of us can proclaim what's for?
Jul 7, 2016
Jul 7, 2016 at 12:29 PM UTC
Before ever seeing the force of death upon the cross.
He saw the decision while being in the hands of others.
When asked, "who shall he freedom?"
The innocent one.
Who has done nothing?
Or the criminal?
Who has done more?
The people's decided on the thief.
So has we really changed?
We see the same things happening today.
Through various decades.
So have we really changed?
We could speak volumes about the white juries that let the lynch mobs escape during the fifties and the sixties?
And cries when others seeks retaliation.
What to be expected?
Jesus faced the hands of people stupidity to do right or wrong.
And in similar ways, we are just as stupid than those people was.
So have we really changed?
We see some doesn't get true justice today.
Apr 13, 2016
Apr 13, 2016 at 8:05 AM UTC