Apr 2019
Maybe the Prisoner was Already Dead
“...he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path.”
-George Orwell, “A Hanging”
Evening. Maybe he was already dead
Dead long before the State boys strapped him down
And a functionary started an I.V. drip
Left arm? Or right? In a cinder-block room
Fluorescent lights
With windowed faces posted on both sides
Testaments to the protocols of death
The liturgy of falling away because
He and the lads murdered a helpless man
Fluorescent lights
He breathed. And then he didn’t. His bowels let go
And did they put a Band-Aid on the wound?
Fluorescent lights
But now
Let’s go outside and feel the wind
We live
“...he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path.”
-George Orwell, “A Hanging”
Evening. Maybe he was already dead
Dead long before the State boys strapped him down
And a functionary started an I.V. drip
Left arm? Or right? In a cinder-block room
Fluorescent lights
With windowed faces posted on both sides
Testaments to the protocols of death
The liturgy of falling away because
He and the lads murdered a helpless man
Fluorescent lights
He breathed. And then he didn’t. His bowels let go
And did they put a Band-Aid on the wound?
Fluorescent lights
But now
Let’s go outside and feel the wind
We live
Your ‘umble scrivener’s site is:
Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com.
It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.
Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree: The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.
Reactionarydrivel.blogspot.com.
It’s not at all reactionary, tho’ it might be drivel.
Lawrence Hall’s vanity publications are available on amazon.com as Kindle and on bits of dead tree: The Road to Magdalena, Paleo-Hippies at Work and Play, Lady with a Dead Turtle, Don’t Forget Your Shoes and Grapes, Coffee and a Dead Alligator to Go, and Dispatches from the Colonial Office.
