Joseph Healy Poet Free verse

Mister Lawyer sir

Tell me what you saw, he demands 
Of his -guilty?-
Client 

And the client 
Sqirms,
Flashback.
Horrified.
Terrified.
Distraught.
Distracted.
Shocked.
Shell shocked.
Dumbed and numbed.
Dumfounded.
Depleted.
Disheveled.
Disconcerted.
Deluded.
Denuded.
Dead.

Simultaneously.

Tell me what you saw,
He demanded...

It's not actually 
What 
He saw, it 
Was 
What he felt.

He felt everything.
Every powerful painful destructive 
Emotion...

You see, the Lincoln lawyer would not demand 
Of me 

Tell me what you saw.

Tell me what you heard,
He'd ask,
When you answered the phone Joseph...

As wet tears drip...

Well, I looked at the phone ring,
First time,
And didn't answer.

I was in year 10 dance, you see, sir,
And, and 

When I saw the call from Eve,
At 11.26,
I h...
Didn't answer...

Must be a butt call,
I thought,
You see..

But when it rang again, sir,
I amswered,
Before the class of innocent, unsuspecting 
Young girls...

They,
Must have witnessed 
My ...
Degradation,

Yes, 
That's the word,
As I, sir,
As I,
Heard Sarah speak,
Four short 
And utterly 
Deadly words...

 I'm sorry, mister lawyer sir,
I can't repeat them 
I
Can only hear them 
In my head,

But not
Pronounce 
them...

Anyhow,
All the stuff 
The guy feels in this episode,
Episode 5,
The Lincoln lawyer,

I did too.

He, 
However,
Was only playing.

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