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Saturday, September 04, 2021

JELLO JUSTICES

by Lucille Gang Shulklapper




keep silent at night, and greet the day with judicial voice,
to make bounty hunters rejoice,
to welcome them to set new laws
that follow judicial and personal flaws
thinking they can sell it
if they can gel it
but we are women voters, not quivering or breaking
not wavering or shaking because
vigilante justice will not stand, 
you can't invade our bodies like a foreign land
we don't buy your brand.

 
Lucille Gang Shulklapper lives in Florida where she writes poetry and fiction.