Barbed-Wire
Mind
after Leonard Crow Dog
Rid
yourself of barbed-wire mind.
Make
his day the day you reject
barbed-wire
attitude.
I
resolve you of your preparations for imprisonment.
I
terminate your training in weakness.
You
won’t get away with it.
Long
suffering means to keep on forgiving.
Judges
fall asleep on the bench.
The
ends no longer justify the means.
Others
may hold desperately onto misconduct.
They
may remind you what could happen
if you don’t
cooperate.
Who
is faithful with least is faithful with much.
It’s
time to connect the dots.
15
May 1993
[Published in Grasslands.
© 1994 by Jim
Cohn.]
