Just two years and one week ago I made my first post as a Portsmouth Patch blogger. It was a poem about one of Portsmouth’s “finest,” Officer Blanding.
Given the (welcome) amount of notice (finally) be given to police thuggery in this country, I thought it appropriate to celebrate my foray into the blogosphere by re-posting that poem today:
What’s this, you say
Officer:
The Law is in your
Mouth?
Like Kings
Of old
And their Lords
Who tread upon
The serf?
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May we, instead
Move along
To be upon our
Walk?
Or must
This time
Be regaled
With groveling
And pomp?
No disrespect,
Officer:
I’ll be along my
Way
But heroes
I’m told
Appear more bold
When actually saving
The day
