NaPM April 10, 2018

[Lizzie]

Et Tu, Manafort?

You’re not getting pardoned,
just flip already. You have reason
to be petrified: treason,
tax evasion, attempted abduction.
Confess and receive a reduction
of your charges – it would be suicide
to deny your ill-gotten gains,
your plot to commit homicide
(the ransom and murder of Lady Justice).
You might be whole with Deripaska,
but her scales have found you wanting.
You’ll die in a jail cell,
a calcified memorial to hubris and greed,
to thwarted regicide of the Constitution,
and Conspiracy to Defraud the United States.