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THE MORAL MAZE

 

He smears the wall with shit and phlegm and blood,

sprays it with piss and rubs it with his hand,

shouting obscenities and high on smack:

a Pollock which takes bollocks to expand.

 

This man, your prisoner, banged up for life,

a crazy killer, lets his mural dry,—

and does it have a meaning?  Does it fuck!

Pretend his act makes sense and you would lie.

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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