Bulletproof Vest Palpitations
It’s Faint Paddies Day
everyday,
from my oxy scarce commuter view
At this Rocky Mountain skin altitude,
death is always on the dispatch menu
Faint Paddies
be sweating onion fear on a ghetto roll
Cry babies
be diaper blues potty wailing —
Siren screams taking an asphalt stroll
Smurf Daddies
love talking wise guy tough
to rearview mirror images of
cowering suspects in handcuffs
Fraidy Cats
got a lot of Deputy Dawg courage,
when speed bumping
on suburban perimeter patrol
Fear oozes thru those lynx pores
when their metal horse
flee chase coyotes
across the Eight Mile border
Faint Paddies
flipping raw confessions
on a roadside interrogation grill
Tin star bipedal protection
got a twitchy finger condition
Bulletproof vest palpitations,
pulmonary trigger beats cowardly lethal
Skeleton key dirt cell slams
given on a gutless command serve
Phantom guns found
in back-turned raised hands
Allegedly,
the bravest of the few
are fear-tested and duly sworn
Testimony given at the murder trial
is wrist slap fraternal suborned
Civilian low-grade paid to go do a thankless job
most don’t wanna do
Close call jugular boo ...
Tremor callouses builds on a pearl handle knob
Baby back blues got spineless, choke barrel nerves ...
rushing into terror laid danger zones,
with their faint hearts spinning on a swivel swerve
Faint Paddies
Bulletproof vest Fraidy cats
on creep patrol
Wielding their hollow metal courage,
cowardly so
Shaky words of brass sympathy
given bereavement cold
Widow morgue lamentations
are coroner orphan told
Blue smurf Lassies,
with pretend Bravehearts,
on a bullet hole roll ...
firing palpitation tears of timidity
Faint Paddies Day
is always a green brew boo-hoo
Last Mile holiday
Faint Paddies
get no public pity hoisted cheer
handkerchief pose
This is the fear profession
they willingly chose
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2018
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