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BANKERS
The bankers on their lecterns of gold
preach to the indebted as if to say:
"in a small way we support you."
As upright pillars of the community
we balance their world on our backs
while they walk all over us.
Sunday 26th July 2015 10:09 pm
Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper
All seeing eyes
Guardian of the gate,
Sat atop
the stairway of skins.
Sewn together
with satyr hair.
Counting the days,
ticking them off
in a parchment book
with a pen on a string
twined with spider thread.
Sits in the sunlight
and watches the workers
to-ing and fro-ing
like ants on a hill
with their own little tasks,
while he has no legs,
just sits in a chair
wei...
Thursday 19th February 2015 9:30 pm
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