Rescues to Arrests by Mark Cleavenger

Author:Mark Cleavenger [Cleavenger, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781524562533
Publisher: Xlibris US
Published: 2016-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

Paul Korber, boat operator, Mark Cleavenger, deckhand on Jet Ski assisting. Photo courtesy of William Heart.

Confessions of “El Diablo”

Street girls, addicts, infractions,

adolescence misdemeanants of possession.

These are the chores for patrol…

My squad’s assignment was on a whole different level.

Serving warrants is a gig to catch them,

fetter suspects for detectives.

Today we’re after an incest rapist,

…imperative reasons to interrogate.

On fresh arrests, where respect is used,

some may be willing to talk with you.

To be “heard” use the language they’ll understand,

words to construct communication.

From slang to pigeon, speaking Spanglish,

saying anything to gain their trust,

ahh the trickery of a cop.

Waving self-incrimination

before the education of jails confinement.

Prison culture teach one another,

courtroom, courtyard and street survival.

Calming presence, the voice of an actor

having recorded many confessions.

This was the day I interviewed the devil.

El diablo es un hombre de Nicaragua.

His name no longer belongs in this world,

now just an entry in my old journal.

Lucifer’s monster from Nicaragua,

raping his grandmother and getting caught.

Taking me through his fantasy fodder,

of how he sustained a throbbing erection.

The use of his legs to spread her thighs,

pinning then breaking one of her arms.

Sadistically proud that he drew blood,

a wicked pretension to show off his weapon;

Tatuajes satanicos en su pene.

(A satanic tattoo on his penis).

Most will go through their careers

never hearing of such details.

Yet there are those of my peers

committed to seek out these deviants.

Listening too deeply to figure creeps out,

hard to avoid these guys not rubbing off.

Eating at your faith in humanity,

replaced with a jaded distrust of society.

Rape’s never a capital offense; sentences are never enough.

El diablo would serve time in America, then deported to Nicaragua.

Hearing the screams of my instincts…

premonitions of him doing it again and again.

We, as police, should advocate for the victims,

sometimes it must be done by cheating.

It is that guilt I carried on this arrest

as a self-appointed-killer angle.

Feeling justified by moral proclivity,

I announced to the booking deputies;

This prisoner is charged with raping his grandmother.

With verbal clarity, and decibel level,

porously speaking near jail cell trusties.

Dimed him off in a subtle way

for the ears of inmates standing nearby.

Knowing “kites” would send out the message

as men see everything in captivity.

At times a community must police itself

in prisons there’s little exception.

Not much later all were informed

the devil from Nicaragua was slain in prison.

Tried and sentenced by his peers

absent due process of our judicial system.

What is to happen after life I don’t know.

If there’s a God in the heavens steeped in forgiveness,

I won’t be judged harshly for this sin

…cuzz I was advocating for a seventy-eight-year-old victim.

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