CRIME Poem: I, Amerigo the Undertaker, by Robert Eugene Rubino

I tell the big-shot mobster I believe in America
but its courts betrayed my belief so I’m desperate
to avenge the savagery suffered by my daughter.

I don’t tell the big-shot mobster I despise him
and his family and all his kind of sick psychos
for giving honest Italians like me a bad name.

I tell the big-shot mobster what he needs to hear.
I beg and bow and humble and humiliate myself
call him godfather and kiss his hand. Sell my soul.

I won’t ever tell the big-shot mobster the satisfaction
from our violent vengeance lasts merely a moment
but the sin of our evil will torture me to my grave.

Inspired by the opening scene of The Godfather (1972)