Monday, February 5, 2018

Former People (a Russian series, 14) - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com

                                                                  Former People

                                                                   For W. K. Kortas

We Former People have no reputation
So we are free to starve to death in peace
Or if we are unsightly in the street
Free rides to The Palace of Workers’ Justice

We might be beaten, we might be given a meal
Before we’re freed to a courtyard echoing
With the rattle of mop buckets and screams
And stood in liberating rows and shot

In glorious sacrifice to the Cause
Of progress and equality for all



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