Lives of the Hunger Artists
'This is my letter to the world'
-Emily Dickinson
'O Jerusalem, stoning the prophets,
how often I would have gathered...'
Jesus Christ
'This living hand, warm and capable'
-John Keats
I am sending you this last letter:
written on snow
by moonlight.
you do not answer
when I ask:
you do not
honor what I honor.
you leave thorns
instead of roses
thinking yourself a
charitable person
you let me starve;
then you expect a feast.
you leave me friendless
then demean my friendlessness to others.
and let me freeze
asking
'why is he/she shaking? '
I am writing this letter
like a bloodless revolution
like a smile, - a simile-
broken in two
by those who abandon with
no conscience
what others died for-
chasing all evictions down
rushing in to steal
whatever's left behind they can
carry off in truckloads
after I'm dead you'll build an
edifice of Criticism
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poem by Mary Douglas
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