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The Quantity of Mercy
from: The Menace of Kavanagh

Michael Sindler

For C.B. Ford (with apologies to Willie the Shake)

The quantity of mercy is oft strained
It drops charges, ignores blame, treats women
as if a race beneath. It cheats twice, yes
It forgiveth him that beats and him that rapes:
‘T is easiest upon the mightiest; it becomes
the privileged male to act the vengeful clown
His status bends the force of judicial power,
Thus able to make awful travesty
Wherein doth sit as peer and pull at strings
But mercy is absent - justice decays
Privilege enthroned at the heart of things
It is an affront to suffrage itself
As unearned power doth then skew all odds
When mercy pleads for justice. Therefore, true
Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
That, in this court of Just Us, none of us
Should see salvation: He who plays for party
And that same power doth sour all he renders
This thief of mercy. He will do thus much
To mutilate justice for the worthy
Which if though follow, this warped court of vengeance
Will thus give sentence ‘gainst the women there

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