the caped police

the caped police in uniforms 
all different, personalized 
and warm 

so bulletproof and hard 
they are 

as they invite us in: 

your public house
now! Pass
the bar 

this beatdown we 
all deal sound thunk
and skin bone break
we voted up 

so present now: 
a gift to you 
all couchbound critics
coming due shall 
hail! Hail! Hail! 

Since they don't want 
to fall in pools 
or alley stunt  

to be upheld
by forumed forms
in shadow caps,
star-chambered wells
so won and worn 
to meet their fates 
so far

from 
gaol's
private 
disgrace