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The Prisoner
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His meanor was a suprise to the wise


who in effect saw everything


unwise a wisdom could produce


and they all nodded and shook their heads


  "my opinion


    personally speaking


    is that he ain't no coincidence


    be both


   cause and effect


   and  be good and wise also


   from what I saw


 


less everyone around here the same as


stupid walking and seeing as he


and also all the law breakers


must of made their love


with his fathers mother


for aint no good either


 for  a common assesment


or intellectual investment


  just given away


   to the peculiar tilts of your land.


Your carpenters too


 aint even a part of a degree off


  the absolute balance a scientist could find


   at the center off the earth.


 


A very pretty picture altogether


  the wayard wind had done upon us all


  as I between these places


  am left a meaningless void


   where once at least the grass alone was fertile


   less my  ownsteps and prints


   had aligned with


   the sunwhere it rose and set


And I had not chose this encouter


 I kept the counter only


  on the corner


   in my town


   not the same place as the counter on the corner


 I see


  in all your stupidly appearing places


 and mixed bag of similiarly


 acting races


   that logic alone


   bears only logical witness


  one might replace easily


  with a thoughtless


straight edge for building


and cutting timber


  that your lives I had not noticed do not show the same


as I know


and must be the angle reflects the sun


hides


a truth


the same place


where most places I look


always bears a truth bearing lies. 


 


Your jail aint any hefty place either


and the keeper


aint less or more the wiser


taken no notice but


my name


and crime


should not even my words reveal me


but only my crime


 is not of being a visiting stranger


but a seeker


whose eyes in this


cursed and damned place 


always reflect back upon himself.


 


Marvin E. Kirsh


 


 


 


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 Reviews of "The Prisoner"
Reviewed by Erin Kelly-Moen
Reviewed on October 1, 2007
Nuance sweeping and bitterly edged, Marvin, with an opened-up prisoner's sight.

Erin Elizabeth Kelly-Moen


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