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Young Cops

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 by Tomaz Salamun

    All young cops have soft

    mild eyes. Their upbringing is lavish.

    They walk between blueberries and ferns,

    rescuing grannies from rising waters.

    With the motion of a hand they ask for

    a snack from those plastic bags. They

    sit down on tree stumps, looking at valleys

    and thinking of their moms. But woe is me

    if a young one gets mad. A Scourge

    of God rings, with a club that later you can

    borrow to blot your bare feet.

    Every cop wears a cap, his head murmuring under it

    A sled rushes down a slope in his dreams.

    Whomever he kills, he brings spring to,

    whomever he touches has a wound inscribed.

    I would give my granny and my

    grandpa, my mom and my pa, my wife

    and my son to a cop to play with.

    He would tie up my granny's white hair,

    but he'd probably chop up my son

    on the stump of a tree. The cop himself would be sad

    that his toy was broken. That's the way they are

    when smoking pot: melancholy. They take off

    their caps and breathe their tears into them.

    Actually, they're like camels riding

    in the desert, as if it were the wet palm of a hand.

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