Richard Pierce

Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter

Life, Poetry, Politics

Day 256

funereal

procedures
protocols
rituals

protests
placards
arrests

public grief
private secrets
practiced masks

peaceful
objections
criminalised

orders
servants
uniforms

divine
proclamation
tyranny

subservience
assumed
required

rising
against
rites

worship imposed
objectors removed
violence sanctified

mark
these
words

 

AGGIE’S ART OF HAPPINESS – CHAPTER 209

 

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