17.xi.21
685
2.321
silent sketch
dumb show
back in the day and today
servant brings the mask
and fits it to a face
another brings a handheld
device
scans the code on the
wall
a third presents the
proclamation
(lips move then)
judge in a whisper
town crier too
each in proper costume
‘bring out your dead’
jumble of limbs on a cart
a priest pronounces this
see the rebels hanging
a tissue and all fall
down
(my beautiful apocrypha)
that was then
now
hapless fumble
to mask oneself
to keep away
cut from the one cloth
to show
to scan
to swab
to google
chase tail
a spin of all the limbs with this
the while protesting
placard, sandwich
trying to get attention
with a megaphone as well
and
scorning all one’s betters
holding out a noose
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