BETWEEN PRE-TRIAL AND TRIAL

 

OJ Simpson remains in custody

Of sheriffs at the LA County jail

Waiting for the dust of motions to steady

And show the field of legal penalty

He must run so carefully or fail,

 

Consultation with attorneys ten

Hours a day unlocks the door to his cell

His money buying a liberty in prison

His fame requiring distance from other men

In isolation riding his bicycle,

 

But the cards and letters flood on in

From fans, the lonely and the damaged-in-life

Who seeing opportunity raise pen

To target their hopes now their hero's pinned

Offering pseudo-solace amidst their own strife,

 

Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman stay dead

The brief flash of their stars already fading

From public mind though their stories are uncompleted

Awaiting the trial to light what they said or did

Were they guileless in death or somehow deserving?

 

Society begins a slow hot boil

Blacks believe the trial another injustice

Whites that justice must pain to stem more toil

Innate Belief fears the System'll uncoil

Hope tremors in the heart with scant notice.

 

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