#956 - we who were abandoned here

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we who were abandoned here

for ghost writing

 

after Frost

 

set innocent adrift

marooned

 

so that in later wars we’d victim

far and far away

 

possessed of assumption

we, of the unbelong

and often dog beneath

 

not of this place

nor of any

 

we of the words

others go under

 

inheritors of a theft

and had no home

 

(all of this given

not theirs to give)

 

picture the animals gone

forest down for smoke and shovel

 

we who were sent

who left

who sprung up like the weeds we are

 

of the time before treaty

tread eggshells now

still sing the bliss pageant

 

we who believed it was kings and queens

up on hind legs if taken to task

we who come from the big pretend

 

prosper all that was stolen to us

dig and tax and ship away

we are a big success

we are from the lie

 

spare a thought

these dysphorics

 

we know no place

we are of none

we made the map therefore

kept a paper compass once

how over the hills we’d be free

 

have never been quite right in the heart

 

we, for whom all this taking was

it’s we who’ll make amends