Elizabeth James
Contract Asylum
from Words of the Weak (March-April 2003)
agreement lessened by a head
snapped or shot freelance
alarmist troopers disarmed
children in play
at knife time and the times to pray
protesting self-defence
the waiting firms
still living on the ill edge
of the shrunken house
or mad
amputees remembered
bathed in the darkness
of our powerless rooms
snapped or shot freelance
alarmist troopers disarmed
children in play
at knife time and the times to pray
protesting self-defence
the waiting firms
still living on the ill edge
of the shrunken house
or mad
amputees remembered
bathed in the darkness
of our powerless rooms
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