They get overheated in a scrum.

Swinging clubs to break protesting bones,

military gear gives them cajones.

Wading into crowds can make them vicious.

When did law enforcement turn pernicious?

The friendly policemen you see on t.v.

may not be fun in reality.

The country’s a cold case and surely not a place

you want to be unless you’ve got a gun.

But many folks who don’t quite feel that way

still seem to be shot dead as if for fun.

Oh, sure, there’s good and bad on both sides.

Sometimes that is true.

But bad gets worse. That is the curse.

And then the good die, too.