ALL THOSE
OUTSIZED HANDS
All those outsized hands, which know nothing,
which do nothing, are now outstretched as well.
They uphold what, I ask : the faint law of a
retribution, the thieving law of stealth and money?
If so, then we are accomplices just by living.
-
I have watched the criminal and the cop,
two sides of a coin, both go down. I have
seen the judge, gagged and withered,
dying in his robes. The legislator
on parade, a hangman's noose
around his neck.
-
It's all so very simple.
There's nothing
truthful left.
All those outsized hands, which know nothing,
which do nothing, are now outstretched as well.
They uphold what, I ask : the faint law of a
retribution, the thieving law of stealth and money?
If so, then we are accomplices just by living.
-
I have watched the criminal and the cop,
two sides of a coin, both go down. I have
seen the judge, gagged and withered,
dying in his robes. The legislator
on parade, a hangman's noose
around his neck.
-
It's all so very simple.
There's nothing
truthful left.
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