A Plea to the Court

Explaining need and long-term application is a balancing act

Between desperation and determination of one’s confidence

The expression of desire into the cloud of apparent ambivalence

Is debilitating to the assertion that one is 

Seeking a mutually-beneficial dynamic in the outcome of his plea

The over-arching tone is one of requirement and thus weakness

This is how any person approaches another in the streets of our facial expression

To pierce the line of internal egotistic-obsession into the drive-through lanes of interface 

One may beseech the silence of another’s contemplative grocery lists of musts

To add an item and who is this vagabond approaching robed in derelict fashion?

Maw crimpled and subservient despite its lack of initial motion

The mouth, the eyes, the flinch in the ears enter with the teetering line  

Of the poker-tell, the indication of bluff versus statistical advantage

Apparent behind the eyes as the only physical way to see into the brain

Without slicing scalp to inspect the neurons as what subsection is firing off

Like a startled soldier breaking rank before the general’s order  

Hold the line, hold! hold! hold, but in such confrontations

Sometimes the palpitation of cardiac physiology is a more veracious enemy

Than any imposing the vision past the scope of a rifle or

The extended tip of a tongue jostling for position amongst molars and bicuspids  

For the opportunity to address the court, knowing the jurors were previously

Selected for their overt bias against his world-view, as if watching
The opposite spectrum of his argument on

Known titled satellite semi-journalism of Fox or Viacom

Telling what viewers have previously assured themselves of as truth  

So that he may rest soundly in his confident totality of knowledge
This is beseeching a devil-saint arbiter for a rational decision

Not of kindness or vengeance, but of logic and the placation of the whole

Rather the any individual, even the messenger  

That these words bring forth elements innate to the universal,

But by necessity are slathered in the awful gravy of man’s vessel

And into this divide does every man speak