Ballicatter

Politics and Shame

POLITICS & SHAME

by

Unrestrained
violent

Senseless

Murdering

That acquires

What

Belongs

To someone
else . . .

– Collateral
damage

Dismissed

As

Not
really

Happening . . . –

The Empire

(Politics'

Grandest

Triumphal
arch.)

Must
muffle

Bleeding

Battered

Childhood

Terror
wailing

To be

Merely

Annoyance.