Arthur Engoron

judge poem

Preface: I’ve known

a few Judges (four including

my good friend Ann O’Shea)

but I have never

written a judge poem. Until now.

Arthur Engoron deserves

his own poem. Maybe even a song.

(He played in a bar band for years.

Said they were good enough.)

This week he ordered

DT to pay $450 million dollars

in a civil fraud suit.

That in itself is a poem.

Familiar 74 year old

Queens born Jew

three wives

four children

former cab driver

former musician

believer in humor

member of the ACLU

no life is ever

a straight line

Arthur Engoron

good to workers

fan of Duck Soup

Bob Dylan, puns,

reader of books

man we will remember

because $450 million

dollars is a number

no one will forget.