justice swallowed me up 

like so many others before 

and tried to pass me along. 

’cause she’s blind she can 

say she didn’t see anyone 

thumbing the scale. 

but she’s never been deaf, 

so how couldn’t she know? 

after decades of indigestion, 

her body vomited up 2,020 

innocent men and women 

back to freedom. 

that she’s always been sick 

wasn’t the cause for change, 

but that it has gotten harder 

to hide her illness forces 

her system to acknowledge 

what some have always known: 

injustice is an epidemic.