Inspired by Joan Baez’s incisive “Little Green Worm,” which anatomises a single conscience consumed by moral decay, The Symphony of the Worms extends her vision to the collective: the network of complicity, the chorus of ambition and fear that sustains corruption. Where Baez’s worm feasts on empathy and reason in one mind, this poem tracks the worms as they orchestrate an entire ...

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