"Let the son stew in acrid juice with lone parent
While her wild secret antics rue her race"
Le Chant Royal RECIPE: Poulet Roti - French Style - Ballade- IX
STANZA IX
The French way is to damn you as litigant
Constant professional victim of the Law
Make you read law books be your own defendant
Rush about hang in queues write letters in awe
To lawyers judges ministers presidents
Cull evidence witnesses sealed documents
Which lawyers misplace refuse to cite in case
Desert you in court judges’ contempt to face
Appeal after appeal the single-parent
Must kneel to abuse looks threats to save one’s face
Ev’ry legal ruse used to make one relent
ENVOI
The mother well-entrenched in high police place
Tightens the screws turns the spit with cruel grace
Let the son stew in acrid juice with lone parent
While her wild secret antics rue her race
Ev’ry legal ruse used to make one relent
"The Great Teen Fruit War, A 1960 Novel" involves conflict between the Blues (sons of blueberry farmers) and the Reds (sons of peach growers) in a southern New Jersey agricultural community.
A young man’s need for respect and his search for love enables him to be coerced into becoming an undercover cop. Follow this man to see how others see him and try to understand why the job he becomes obsessed with and his quest for love, tear him ap
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