"I'm About To Save Your Life" (National Poetry Month poem-a-day) day 5

(Criminal Episode11)

Written by Bruce A. Pandolfo

4/5/2017

Call him "Rob”, what he was not who he is, for his honor.

Engineer, in his mid-fourties in the late seventies.

Mild mannered, short, he looked maybe seventeen.

Tried avoiding traffic detouring through several streets.

There are no short cuts, Robert.

The roads wound labyrinthine through Compton,

He knew the reputation that the area had in fact,

The lost drive almost drove him to a panic attack

Upset and distracted, he accidentally scratched a Cadillac

There is no free lunch. Someone conned him.

Boys ran towards him, one yanked open his door

grabbed the wheel, pushed Rob's weight aside

looked him in his eyes “ I'm about to save your life”

What he didn't mention is “you're gonna pay the price”

It should have been a hint that Leone's name was Moore

Leone parked and said the scraped 'lac was his families',

info was exchanged so Rob could fix the mess,

grateful to his savior, though now he was enmeshed,

short-changed 100K by a long-con 25 years' duress,

He paid off caused damages, but his paid cost more damaging

Beware of those who help , best to walk on your own two,

Some secrets are deadly, this was one Rob kept,

Told no soul of his blackmail debt until there was a threat,

In the 90s, decidedly took it to court but it courted his death.

Keep those whom you owe few, those you owe will own you.

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