We need to see slantwise

A lawyer must be very pragmatic

And yet it is never sufficient

They need  to make visual

Images  original

To  persuade us  our thinking’s deficient

If they are too oratorical

The jury may turn away stunned

They must walk the fine line

Between rhetorical and mundane

To satisfy the plain folk’s demand.

We want to be made to see other

Than what at first springs to  our minds.

So  just like the painters

They are visual creators

Depicting   too ,above and behind..

The lawyer wants the jury  more mobile

To question what they first believed.

Some do it by shouting loud,

As if  to cow a crowd.

Others by changing their creed.

Events,even murder ,are complex

And we hope that the money’s not all

For if lawyers corrupt the court

When  by rich men they’ re  too often bought

The artist inside all’s appalled..

Facts are not simple and plain.

That depends where the onlooker stands

We need to see slantwise

And even  through another’s eyes.

No perspective,no angle is banned.

How we judge other people

Is not  just a trivial concern.

We are all disaffected

If the good ‘s not protected.

And the commonest of all; can’t discern