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sedgwick pie

comes now

the poet

to tell the tale

of one

theodore sedgwick

 

federalist

5th speaker of the house of representatives

jurist

senator

massachusetts potentate

judicially supreme

yale dropout

who served

in the continental army

exploring the willling wilds of oh canada

and battling the white plains

 

precedent setting

lawyer to brom and bett

who won the right to call themselves

Freeman

when he argued their freedom suit

based upon

the state constitutions 1780 claim

all men are born free and equal

 

patriarch

with control issues

that extended into the

hereafter

 

dear judge sedgwick had

a familial plan

for a cemetery plot like no other

 

our founding father

theodore is

buried in the

center

of what cemeterians call

the laughing stock

of the east coast

 

the sedgwick pie

of stockbridge, massachusetts

 

a great middling monolith stands

above him

surrounded by the headstones of

his wives

children

nieces

nephews

in laws

pets

servants

and siblings

 

all

facing in toward him

in concentric circles

instead of burial

facing east

toward the rising sun

 

his after life logic

being

when the

resurrection comes

and

the faithful rise from their graves

on judgement day

looking upon jerusalem

 

the sedgwick clan

would only

have to endure

looking…

 

upon

other

sedgwicks

 

justitia omnibus

 

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