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Milk and Evidence


All this fanatic focus On gesture and sustenance Or strappy or ankle length On which way is best To not be like them The income bracket most famous for arrests Is never considered upon anything but the way the accuser is dressing as an actress Milk and evidence Sexual history and witnesses for the defense Are severely absent At public hearings But intertwining violent thighs Crossing themselves over and under and back again Knitting intricate webs of spidery veils over woman heads Each spit wet link wildly complicated and wholly unique She tried, in her own way She really did She consulted with legal advocates Threatened to press up against him With a very private moment When it was least appropriate The courts already overflowing with Selfish divorce warriors Turned us loose in this environment Gretel stopped dropping hints And started collecting Gathering what was left Any scraps that hadn’t been formula fed or Shot off to other planets or Mass slaughtered into the food process Hansel has already started to forget
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