Redoing Kafka's 'The Trial'

 

 

if there is a God, there's another beer in the fridge...

the pain in my right foot will recede

(in fact all the pains gathered throughout the day)

and I could sleep without the alphabetical lice of my thought scampering about my head

 

if there is a God, somewhere there's not,

and that disturbed me as a child Protestant, so I left

and only being a child what I left was conviction

only being conviction confession confection

 

so my teeth are rotten, I don't smile -

my age forgotten, as technique - who is this hologram I've created of myself?

Done, in the name of Poetry... I've sacrificed everything -

no life but work, no more family, no home, no country - I am adrift

 

but martyrs never speak freely of their martyrdom...

so what am I up to? Where is my case, my files? 

 

 

©2007 wfairbrother

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