#legal poetry

[riesenfeldcenter]

It’s not every day you see a kissing couple in a historiated initial!

Legal and other lyrics is a collection of humorous law-themed poetry by Scottish advocate George Outram. “John and Jean,” excerpted here, is a prenup in the form of a poem.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

There’s a thing called “competitive legal poetry”, which is just like any other legal battle except the lawyers are required to speak in rhyming couplets.

[and-corn]

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

convince singlets to be a system. do it.

[six-white-venus]

[catilinas]

can’t spell courtship without COURT!!!

[ethereal-bumble-bee]

a haiku

you are very gay

you are undoubtedly a

homosexual

[the-feminist-filipino-fangirl]

600 men have died

The king drifts through the tides

His life the 1 he couldn’t take

His dream of wife and son at stake

The years drift by like passing clouds

Threats closing in on the unfinished shroud

A young man staring out to sea

Dreaming of a father he’ll never see

Meanwhile, the king is hidden away

On a secret island where palm trees sway

Held captive by a goddess, immortal and sweet

The paradise bare of all means of retreat

Immortal as well, the owl sees all

The sea, the island, the rise and fall

Time running out, she plays a game

Fighting against gods and the sun all the same

A lying man, the last month of summer

Jorge Miguel Rivera Herrans, this better not be a bummer

-- an epic: the musical fan-poem by yours truly

[tangerinetrees]

Hello! So sorry to bug you out of nowhere, but you added something really cool from the legal realm to a chain of custody post so I was wondering on your take on whether Harvey Dent could practice law in Gotham (even if he did get disbarred for criminal activities)?

hello! tysm for asking about harvey bc he’s very dear to me!! i do want to specify first that my legal knowledge is mostly limited to like a) criticizing the justice system in the us, and b) pretty vague in terms of the nuances to new jersey’s state system bc i don’t live there, so this is 80% headcanon and 20% personal research. also warning this got kinda long

like for one, regarding the state legal system, apparently jersey has “county prosecutors” (equivalent to new york’s district attorneys) who are appointed by the state attorney general instead of being elected. given it’s pretty much a staple for gotham to have a DA, we’re already throwing real world examples out the window

harvey getting disbarred is a really interesting point to me (<- intense focus on minutiae in world building), given that it’s already established in universe that gotham’s system is corrupt - which should include everyone from police to judges to prosecutors to prisons. which is kinda funny since most comics and adaptations don’t take the level of corruption inherent to police+prosecutors to nearly the depths they reach irl in the usa? and irl they rarely get disciplined or disbarred? i digress. because of the highly public nature of harvey / two face going on a revenge spree against gotham’s mob families, starting his own crime syndicate, and his arrest being published in the media, i think it’s safe to say he was disbarred.

while i’m not sure of how disbarment works as a process, i can imagine the NJ supreme court conducting an investigation into harvey’s crimes and run as DA to decide whether or not to disbar him - and all of the cops/ADAs/politicians/judges he pissed off while trying to reform gotham giving support for his disbarment. not to mention the actual criminal case that would be filed against harvey. disbarment in jersey is permanent (although apparently this might be changing recently?), so realistically, harvey can’t ever be reinstated. man crashed and killed his career so he could kill the maronis. which kind of explains harvey’s hopelessness about rebuilding his life

i mean mostly we see harvey offering legal advice, or sometimes just ‘holding court’ as a way for harv and twos to argue with each other. theoretically harvey could choose to represent himself in court. but even if they finish serving a sentence and try to build a non-crimey life, harvey’s disbarment would be his biggest obstacle to practicing law again. maybe given how convoluted gotham’s legal system is, ex con harvey would be allowed to practice in some but not all courts? like civil court and family court is fine, but as for criminal court... harvey can help with your divorce but he can’t defend you for committing robbery lmao

but honestly my preferred take is that two face and harvey have separate licenses. there was a scene in i think btas where they had a credit card with two face listed as the name, and in one of his runs with red hood he mentions their drivers license being out of date. so really i just think it would be hilarious if two face was not disbarred, or if he passed the bar as part of a rehab program (and i can definitely see a wayne sponsored convict higher education program existing in gotham)

(and relatedly, harvey and the other rogues being sentenced to arkham over and over again has fascinating implications? since traditionally it’s not a correctional facility the way a prison like blackgate is, not really. which would insinuate that despite being hella corrupt, gotham’s DAs don’t typically push for death penalty (illegal in NJ since 2007 btw) or even for life in prison, depending on the case. who knows? maybe harvey’s reform policies have kickstarted a lineage of more progressive DAs. well. unless arkham is being used as a jail+hospital for ppl with health needs, and that sentenced inmates are awaiting trial, bc then that would be more fucked up..)

anyway! sorry for this very long response lol, harvey and two face are my boys, and i could go on all night about them. tldr, whether or not harvey can practice law depends on 1) how closely you want adhere to jersey law, 2) whether he’s currently an escapee/avoiding arkham or an ex-con, and 3) how funny it is at the moment. there was a post floating around about how a reformed dent storyline should be harvey as a pro bono civil defense lawyer and two face as a personal injury lawyer which to me is the ideal state of things lol

[waitingforlostsouls]

The fact people relate so much with my poems honestly makes my day. I'm so glad I was the reason you decided to move on from your shitty relationship. I have no idea what's going on, but I'm just happy to come along for the ride. Let's go key their car 🤝

[scamera-writes]

Hey love

Hey love,

No more mistakes right?

No more hearing your name at the doctor’s office and stumbling to correct them. No more clumsy signatures as I write your name instead of my own. No more emails to teachers explaining why one form says your name but they need to call me mine.

I think I’ll miss it. I’ll miss hearing your name and seeing how they pronounce it, how they misspell it, how they hesitate before saying it. I’m really going to miss it.

I hated your name for a while, did you know that? I felt like it was an old burden on my back and I know it’s not now but that didn’t stop me from calling it ‘dead’. I think it was societal pressure to label your name as my ‘deadname’ but it really isn’t.

It’s your name, not mine- it never was.

It's not dead, it was just simply misplaced.

Choosing my own name was the hardest thing I’ve done in a long while. It’s not similar to your name in meaning, shape, or feeling. But it’s mine and your name is yours.

I don’t mean to make you sad here, I don’t want to forget your name is what I’m getting at.

I’m going to look back at old yearbooks and smile when I see you, I’m going to whisper your name to the sky when I see the star you represent, I’m going to sing my heart out when a song comes on and your name is in it.

No, wait. I think I did this all wrong. Let me start over.

Dear ---,

I love you. I miss you. That’s all.

Take care,

---

-Hey love (By me)

[gr3n0nion]

God, for once in my life help me.

Take me out right now.

Reincarnate me as a dog

I’d be happy to live in a kennel for the rest of my short life.

[strawberryclementine]

Better Call Saul should've had a scene where Howard recites poetry. He's kind of Gale-coded if you squint (and IMO you don't really have to squint too much) so I would've loved to see him read something he cared about to maybe Jimmy or Chuck. It doesn't even have to be poetry, it could've been a treatise or novel or something, but it would/should have been about ethics or justice.

[bnesszai]

Hhh okay. I'm gonna be brave. Looking through some old poetry i wrote and feel like sharing this. I was apparently going through it at the time

[karlkapri]

― “The Mourning Star,” Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Clean: Faith Abuse and George Pell

@sidcrosbrainworms: the Bruins Mafia AU no one asked for..

Hockey Poetry Post 16/?

(Photo credit: Mike Penhollow, Bruce Bennett, David Lees, Mike Penhollow, Bruce Bennett, movie: Official Secrets dir. Gavin Hood, Brian Babineau)

[thefatiguedflautist]

My favorite poem - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,

  In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

  By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

  Than to love and be loved by me,



I was a child and she was a child,

  In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love --

  I and my Annabel Lee --

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

  Coveted her and me.



And this was the reason that, long ago,

  In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

  My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsmen came

  And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

  In this kingdom by the sea.



The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

  Went envying her and me --

Yes! -- that was the reason (as all men know,

  In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

  Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.



But our love it was stronger by far than the love

  Of those who were older than we --

  Of many far wiser than we --

And neither the angels in Heaven above

  Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

  Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;



For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

  Of the beautiful Annabel Lee,

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling -- my darling -- my life and my bride,

In her sepulchre there by the sea --

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

~*~*~*~*~*~