04-09-2020, 10:41 AM
Infallible
What must it have been like to be the one
whose perfect legal knowledge always spun
a web of true deductions, never failed
to trap a fiend and free his falsely jailed
guest-client of the hour? Is it luck
his ingenues, though shady, never buck
that path from death to closing epigram
with each true killer shaming Tragg and Ham?
(His secret safe, each trial fit his plan
to wine and dine his current leading man.)
What must it have been like to be the one
whose perfect legal knowledge always spun
a web of true deductions, never failed
to trap a fiend and free his falsely jailed
guest-client of the hour? Is it luck
his ingenues, though shady, never buck
that path from death to closing epigram
with each true killer shaming Tragg and Ham?
(His secret safe, each trial fit his plan
to wine and dine his current leading man.)
Non-practicing atheist