Pass the will and testament please...

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Open Poetry #30

Pass the will and testament please...

Tim
Senior Member

since 1999-06-08

Posts 1794

0 posted 2004-01-15 09:19 PM

Today I ate the law,
a statute,
a simple law of no significance
which I nibbled absentmindedly
as would a child
chew on his fingernails,
then I wiped the crumbs
of a last few whereas's and wherefore's
off of my chin
and went in search of a habeas corpus.

Now some might be heard to say
one should not eat the law,
but it is not illegal,
leastways not in Kansas,
California law might say otherwise,
or so I read
right before
I ate.

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

1 posted 2004-01-16 10:07 AM

Inasmuchas most laws are a waste of the paper they are written on, why not eat them?! At least some purpose would be served from the chopping down of all those trees! And just think of the beneficial effect of the additional fibre in our diet! Do you have any praecipe recipes, preferably something easy to digest?