Poetry about lawyers teaches them about themselves: who they are, what they do and how others perceive them.
Let’s start with perception. People do not always like lawyers. Carl Sandburg lambasts the profession in “The Lawyers Know Too Much,” saying lawyers act like priests of a sacrament from which they deliberately keep others ignorant: “The lawyers, Bob, know too much./They are chums of the books of old John Marshall.”
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