The White House’s Hans Frank, clutching your law
book, you lurked in a back room at Justice,
inking secret opinions—brazen flaws
untapped until Goldsmith cited your vice:
crowning Bush king in 2001, you
tossed Congress and courts in the trash, renamed
torture to seem like a handshake, and screwed
citizens’ rights with surveillance’s shame,
all to support Cheney’s mythical war.
Korean born, you’d think it ironic,
would you not, to find yourself jailed, deferred
habeas corpus, your citizenship
stripped through a power shift? You’d cry, I guess,
of human rights. Deny you’re Dr.Yes.
Roger Armbrust
November 1, 2007
