Saturday, August 4, 2018

The Slaughter of Holy Innocence - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com

The Slaughter of Holy Innocence

Were you ever in love with someone not
Listed as an approved relationship
By roaming mobs of false analogies
In either-or assumptions basely masked?

Friendship and love are regulated now
Not by a written fiat of the state
But by the decibels of imbeciles
The bellowed mandate of the club and fist

The law of love is now the law of bans -
They’ve politicized even the touching of hands


(The allusion to Saint Matthew 2 is deliberate.)

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