Toggle Menu

What You Do

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

Maxine Kumin

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

are you still Christian when you wrap it in plastic when you ice the body when you swear it didn’t happen

when you wrap it in plastic when the dossier’s been there when you swear it didn’t happen for over a year now

when the dossier’s been there for the ghost prisoner for over a year now where nobody’s looking

for the ghost prisoner when nobody knows what you do when you’re in there where nobody’s looking.

Maxine Kumin


Latest from the nation