Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks May 2015: Equality | Page 6

Glimpsing
Aoife Donnellan
They are getting restless
in their bedsits
crying that equality
is defined by a definition
and that repetition
is the mother of education
but no matter how many times
air fills our lungs
we never learn how to live forever
They are getting forgetful
in their bedsits
crying out that times
set on clock faces have moved past races
past caring about stages
and that this new rage
will put us through our paces
And it’s in these places
that people are forced to silence.
Exercise your right
so we may all wear rings on our fingers.

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