Today the U.S. Sentencing Commission
decided that nearly fifty thousand
federal drug offenders
are eligible
for reduced sentences.
Former President
and Possible Former User of Cocaine
George W. Bush
was not available for comment
on how the country's
gradually evolving mentality
on the criminalization of drugs
and the demonization of users
(some perhaps
more than others)
away from "lock-'em-up"
to "maybe-help-'em-out"
would give these
sooner-to-be-former prisoners
the chance to achieve
what he did.
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
