Gobbledygook Legal Vernacular Poem by Stanley Cooper

Gobbledygook Legal Vernacular

Something for something is “quid pro quo”
I looked it up, that’s how I know
It’s a hell of a phrase, I think you’ll agree
It’s of interest to me, peculiarly

Expressed by attorneys is “Ip-so-facto”
Quaintly as strange as the “quid pro quo”
“By the fact itself” is what it’s meant to portray
When voiced by attorneys in their courtroom display

An acknowledgment of a personal error or fault
Is “me-a cul-pa” in use by default
When voicing this gobbledygook legal vernacular
Lawyers impress laymen, by appearing spectacular

Phrases like these provoke my attention
As foreign to our conversing convention
Lawyers should orate less cavalierly
Speak to the point simply and clearly

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