Could be verse: poetry ripped from the headlines
By JAMES PARKER | December 16, 2008
Lines in defense of Judge Roy Pearson, who lost a $54 million lawsuit against his dry cleaner and has now lost his job
Misunderstood man of the law, I salute you — a Solomon scorned by the throng,
Who gravely determined that they were in breach who had cleaned your trousers wrong.
Your satisfaction was “guaranteed.” Yet you were not satisfied.
And now, though your ass be grass, your principle stands: clean and dried.
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