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Lawrence Hall
Poems
Aug 2018
The Slaughter of the Holy Innocents and of Holy Innocence
Were you ever in love with someone not
Listed as an approved relationship
By roaming mobs of false analogies
In either-or assumptions basely masked?
Friendship and love are regulated now
Not by a written fiat of the state
But by the decibels of imbeciles
The bellowed mandate of the club and fist
The law of love is now the law of bans -
Theyβve politicized even the touching of hands
(The allusion to Saint Matthew 2 is deliberate.)
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