Safer

F.X. MacKenzie

While crack dealers prowl the street
in front of my house
and the sweet elderly widow's paltry checks
are stolen from her mailbox across the way
and my psychotic neighbor breaks out his basement windows
with the skull of his stepchild

it's nice to know that
Officer Snapdragon is on the job

stopping cars for hurrying through his 15-mile-an-hour speed trap
and ticketing drivers for not wearing seatbelts.

Oh, yes...
I know
I feel
Safer.


© Copyright 2006 by F.X. MacKenzie


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