Zachary Taylor Knox
(impaired judgment)
repent, repent the confederate judge lent
the judgement from the words of his own denial in the
recent black boy’s trial because it wasn’t
he who was the one who stood close to
the fire he spent hours wrapped up in the
latest and greatest styles on which to buy
his very owned miracle mile and pay
a merry band of illegal immigrants to design
the landscape of his fertilized lawn to
conceal the closing in steel gate that
shielded him from the reality of
his commitment to the incestial rape
of his daughter, he reasoned it didn’t
matter because of all the things he
bought her and the life lessons it taught
her
Zachary Taylor Knox’s poems have appeared in Ealain and Penny Ante Feud. He lives in Fort Madison, Iowa.
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