By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A compressed attack on official power, where procedural language and professional irony become part of the same ugliness.
The poem opens with disgust as its first and only register. District attorneys, professional irony, procedural toughness — all are flattened into the same moral landscape. The deliberate misspelling of 'disgusting' and 'District Attorney' carries its own commentary: the poem refuses to spell the system correctly because the system does not deserve correct spelling.
The compressed lines and lack of punctuation create a breathlessness that mirrors outrage — the speaker cannot slow down long enough to be grammatical because the corruption he is naming will not wait for proper form.