#1224 - swarthy

 

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swarthy

profiling

 

you see them here there

come from the past

as from the great plain they have made

 

an axe blunt wielding dog’s bark gone

down at heel, unwashed

 

made small by monuments, by distance

by incapacity

 

hear a faroff hammer then

 

they have had so much sun

 

and breathe the insect air

like us

mostly though abandoned

 

today if they can get the work

it’s mending anything

that rusts

 

till leaning from pub windows

and have a street go by

 

a little hated now and then

remembering where from

 

I mean of course from the old wars

the ones that no one won

 

how blue this sky of all here now

 

could say we’re all of us

                 out of the past

but it’s not the way of things

 

ask after the emancipation

 

this crucifixion everywhere

that we must be the same