mockery

by kaarbo

mockery
cried the old man
as he sneered at the
cows
mockery
cried the prisoner
as he was being
deloused
mockery
cried the surgeon
as he sliced open my liver
mockery
i cried in vain
as the butcher hacked at my
toes.

[orginally published in The Saga of the Verbal Spoon]

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