Monday, June 23, 2014

News That Isn’t New Valentine

When poetry gets captured
tortured and enslaved
sent out into the fields
to labor over whiteness
with bloody brooding hands
when poetry gets arrested
like wild horses whispered to
harnessed to loaded carts
of industrial manure
when poetry gets raped
legally and in the streets
without witnesses or sound
you know something’s been lost
but who knew poetry could suffer so long
who knew it was only people
singing softly in the ground

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