A Demon from the Law Department

[mahuairong]

If you see me, you see a dog;
If you meet me, you meet a toad;
If you hear me, you hear a male duck..
What on earth am I by trade?
A demon from the Law Department.

Who said a dishonest person
can not become a law professor?
Who told you a stutter
can’t argue and plead at the court?

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, hi!
Here appears a demon, the capital I.
With more hesitations for hooks or crooks
Evil wisdom at last overwhelms the law books.

In the old, gates of the courts face the south
Away with those with reason, but without wealth
In pronunciation, if you pronounce lawyer
you pronounce lord or master in Chinese language.

Now history has turned a new page.
The trends of law spirits go like torrents
Those who are for them, survive!
Those who are against them, perish!

From the correction of the Constitution,
I have just come back.
Into the implementation of the Civil Law
With deliberation, I, I and I partook.

Verdicts by any court are easily overthrown.
What strength I have is not only for my own.
Plotted with gangs, office and justice,
I can call a mouse a cat and do white black.

Purchased, I plead for the stronger,
Bought over, I defend the richer,
Suborned, I support the upper,
Bribed, I destroy the evidences against the smugglers.

The more laws I announce and enforce
The more evils I produce.
The more law students I cultivate,
The worse the security conditions get.

Such a demon as me
Like an eel at sea
Swim through the actions of the administrations
to the activities of the private corporations.

Curious about my true features and the where?
With care! I hide myself here and there.
Lying low in the code articles
Suddenly at the court of justice I reappear.
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You see me, you lose me

[博弈]

interesting subject, a daemon can also hide in a foreign language, which
is the reason you chose to express such?
in terms of poetics, such open verses may require more attention on 'moving' the audience in sounds and rhythm so that you don't lose it.

to that end i mean, for example

Who said a dishonest person
can not become a law professor?
Who told you a stutter
can’t argue and plead at the court?

could be rearranged as follows;

Who said a dishonest person cannot
become a law professor?
Who told you a stutter cannot
argue and plead at the court?
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（在不斷的審醜裡終將建立起新的審美）

[mahuairong]

Thanks for reading this poem. We talked about a professor and lawyer who works where I work. He is so dishones and mean and disgusting!

Give me more suggestions about my poems. Thanks!
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You see me, you lose me