Can I Bother You Brother?

Can I bother you brother?
I won’t take up much of your time.
You need to know this up front,
I’ve committed no crime.

It’s bail money I need,
because I was jailed recently.
For crimes perpetrated by others,
I am no longer free.

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Linked to dVerse Poets Pub: Quadrille #126 — Come “bother” up a poem where De Jackson (aka WhimsyGizmo) is hosting tonight.

Quadrille: A poetic form consisting of exactly 44 words, including a prompt word: Quadrille Defined in a Quadrille

13 thoughts on “Can I Bother You Brother?”

  1. Oh this is deeply moving, there are so many such cases where the perpetrators run free and the innocent are deemed as guilty.

  2. I count my blessings that my brother (serving 25 to Life) knew better than to attempt to contact e for bail.
    Well done, OherRon.

  3. I just watched ‘In the Name of the Father’ the other night. To be locked up for a crime you didn’t commit is unimaginable. And then have to stay there to save the prosecutors from scandal: there’s a true crime.

  4. Such a sad story, indeed. Like Bjorn, I thought of Shawshank, and which stories can be believed. Well done.

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