Lowlife

On 6/15/2012, after catching up on the Jerry Sandusky trial and reading in the news that Steven Powell would be out of jail in just 21 months, I wrote this:

To: Steven Powell

Cc: Jerry Sandusky

I’ve got to think a guy like you

is the lowest of the low.

From where you sit I can’t imagine

anything below.

So I asked God “Hey why do you

let creeps like this keep livin’?

Aren’t there people even you

would say aren’t worth forgivin’?”

And God told me “The paperwork

has already been done.

Signed and notarized,” he said,

“The devil gets this one”.

And so I asked the devil, “Hey,

What’s up? Are you reneging?”

And he said, “No, this guy’s so low

That I’m still busy digging!”

And so you see now guys like this,

Sandusky, Powell and others,

would have been dead long ago,

if we’d all had our druthers.

But like I said up there on top,

these guys are so damned low,

that hell is not beneath them yet.

The devil told me so.

RLJ - 6/15/2012