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EPITAPH FOR THE LATE BOURGEOISIE
circa: the day after tomorrow
if only you'd known
life beyond carpets
and windows.
or was it your fate

to sentence yourself
to the dot of an i
with a full
stop ahead at the garden?

and that of the over-
looked in the street,
the monster
that stalked the world

you neglected, eager
to slake its thirst
with your blood
to never desist

from its beastly behaviour
until you'd acknowledged
your creature
and saviour?
RICHARD LIVERMORE
from
New Hope International Vol. 17 #4

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