to things that don't exist
peering through the cutting wrist
at grand old mother greedy
rolling out the cotton ship
throttling children callously
gideon lied and gideon died
gideon smiled as gideon died
the thought of china held
rolling out the golden robes and other foreign language
stretching out the verbs and nouns together in the greeting
some that felt the blade often
some deep confused emotion
struck eye first against the wall of china under fire
gideon lied and gideon died
gideon smiled as gideon died
the thought of china held