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What You Do

By Maxine Kumin

This article appeared in the January 23, 2006 edition of The Nation.

January 4, 2006

when nobody's looking
in the black sites what you do
when nobody knows you
are in there what you do

when you're in the black sites
when you shackle them higher
in there what you do
when you kill by crucifixion

when you shackle them higher
are you still Christian
when you kill by crucifixion
when you ice the body

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