Kit Kelen #1440 - a tour of the ghetto

1440

a tour of the ghetto

dream piece

the crime unknown but been before

the day of all these parts

                                                not showing

girls kneel in the courtyard

weeding, scrubbing?

the baby is left

cardboard coffined

new style still breathing

skip Stanley knife

there can’t be a prayer

but I come to your window

deshabillé, you are I mean

and hair to do

we must swim back

must climb aboard

a chamber feast of vanishings

one wears the hat

believes an honour

all the others laugh

this shawl for your lovely wife

long gone

and float among

we know these rooms

no one tells what they’ve done

or how accused

hesitate before a door

believing the bathroom

not so bad

none of us

lesson simply

no need to commit to crime

here for a visit far away

walls fall

we’re to witness

the ghosts

of fixed address