Shelley's Loss...For Simeon Poem by r james sterzinger

'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.' Shelley

Poetry is better than law I told him
Law changes and means nothing anymore
He disagreed.

Name me one lawyer that became a poet
Give me hope I said
'If the glove don't fit you must acquit, '
Johnny Cochran, he said.

I came to a compromise-
I wasn't going to win-
You know Kipling
I know Frost
You like rules
I like free verse, I said.

That is the way we settled it.

I think he will make a fine lawyer someday
I will still be struggling to write meaningless verse
We settled it.
I lost the argument.
I saved face
That is all a poet can hope for.