On Trial at a Pizza Parlor

I didn't defend her

my mind turned to slush

as they mocked her misery

and his inability

to make a move

and i stood by,

a dummy laughing at their 

discomforting jokes.

It came to me,

at one moment

to defend her, but I didn't.

I even at one point said,

let me think of something

and then some rubber ball

touched my mind,

but it was too small to hold,

and so i dropped it

and sat there,

bamboozled.