Wednesday, May 15, 2013

A Profession


What do I do? I encage a spirit
In a space too small to lay down or stand,
And I give the prisoner cold poisons
Or else toxins to quicken its slow blood,
And from time to time I pierce through its skin
With pins or swords or flame-heated needles:
In tortured screams I find the art that was foretold.

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