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Poetry of Issue 9: Scam Artist

Scam Artist

A guy’s got to get by.

Who better to support me

than the kids from high school

who made my life hell because

Ma took in male boarders

and Dad took a powder faster

than I can snort a line of soda?

So I got the emails of everyone

I knew back then, wrote to say

I’d married, but she wasn’t

what an honest man would expect:

took out a couple of policies

on my life, then hired a guy,

who blasted me, left me blind,

then kidnapped our daughter.

Now I’m fighting for her custody,

since how could I leave

sweet Amy in her depraved hands?

Worked like a snake charm,

until these two sisters hired me

a lawyer; I split the state faster

than if the mob were on my trail.

by Robert Cooperman

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