As always you find the sun beneath your feet the crying voices don't
hear the awkward spinner and broken weaver the way earth cries out break!
break! clattering the smitten earth volts over
our heads
sending babies head first dead headed
kicked up
punched
into that other space
(not exactly a choice or free will now is it)
the ghost greeting'em
around surround the bloody arrivals cried off their feet the
incomprehensible language
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we don't ask pardon for faults
that aren't ours and the insane tyrants power
smashing in the houses and rubbled feet the broken ones
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Nor do we ask forgiveness for the Empire's murdering direct or indirect billing
of the death of the dead ones that War it wages its
cache is enormous hauling its prisoners off to camps of one kind and another
the principle being to keep the down down (and) downhearted for eternity
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ten past the hour the knelling rings ring ring
they crawl past their feet this too's awar they've declared
undeclared on those in the island
