Does the Dawn Require a Trigger Warning? -poem

Lawrence Hall
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Does the Dawn Require a Trigger Warning?

A sunrise has no trigger warning, no:
The dawn is not that misty night which was;
A sinister click, and the radio speaks
Tidings of discomfort and joylessness

     Someone must be made to suffer for this1

There is no trigger warning from the clock
Announcing brutally the need to rise
As from the dead, and dress for this day’s work
Which lacks all hope of glamour and success

     Someone must be made to suffer for this

Life is not fitted with warnings, and so
One’s discomfort is the fault of others

     Someone must be made to suffer for this


1“Someone must be made to suffer for this” is a mimeme from Frederick William Rolfe’s Hadrian VII.