Best Policing Poems
Policing, Post-RevolutionWe called the police
but no one came
We tried 9-1-1
it wasn't the same
We placed a request
for a social psychologist
Who showed up
a part-time mixologist
She surveyed the scene
Five shot, four dead
Mixed some bloody Marys
Then gagged and...
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Categories:
policing, bullying, change, death, hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Atlanta: New Policing Standard1. When you are called to a fast-food restaurant (Wendy's, MacDonalnds) as a police-servant, do NOT try to TASER a drunk - but otherwise innocent-black man.
2. If the drunk but otherwise innocent-black man is BIG, do not plan or premediate how to kill him.
3. If...
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Categories:
policing, america, appreciation, black african
Form:
Didactic
Scorched Earth Social Policinga thousand tragedies paned
onto the community headlines
slashes the idle spirits
the wound enrages them to
seek out sadistic glee for the sake
to title themselves as 'woken.'
pitchforks and torches raised
looking for the guilty farmer
with swift words and stories
all the crops seared in the name
of the mindless chase...
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Categories:
policing, allegory, extended metaphor, social,
Form:
Free verse
Just Us and Policing Justice-Come up
Justice
Police
Cold meats
Book em
Dan O
Police
Po Po
9/29/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...
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Categories:
policing, analogy, caregiving, celebrity, character,
Form:
Footle