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Picture Taken A Few Miles Above Domino Sugar Refinery On the Hudson River

An(us) Domino – Rant Conceived when Riding By Sugar Refinery

Who would have thought
we would get to the day
when sugar
is the healthy alternative?

Or, when those who assail abortion,
especially, if male,
would fight tooth and nail
against any measure taken
to avoid getting pregnant
in the first place; or

when salivating-at-the-pockets protectors
of private property
would allow the police to investigate
your privates, properly;
not finding a speck
of governmental overreach
as long as the state is only allowed to reach
up your rectum or vagina. 

Perhaps they are not thinking of the police
reaching up their rectums or vaginas.

(Or maybe they are.)

All I can say is that what goes around comes around.

In the meantime, pass me the sugar, sweetie.

I hesitate to post the above poem for this the 9th day of National Poetry Month and also for dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night, since it is a bit of a stretch from my typical more lyrical format.  However, for those who haven’t heard, the U.S. Supreme Court has recently ruled in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington that a person arrested for even a minor offense (or, as in the Florence case, arrested wrongfully) can be strip searched without reasonable suspicion if they are to be detained with the common jail population.  It seems to me a troubling decision that has not raised a significant public response (which is ironic given the huge uproar over clothed pat-downs done by the TSA.)

A discussion of the case may be read on Scotusblog.  (Disclaimer, Scotusblog has a very thorough discussion but is a blog written, at least in part, by an attorney  whose firm, Goldstein v. Russell, P.C., was counsel to the petitioner.)