Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks September 2015 (Internet) | Page 20

If justice is a balance the scales are weighted in your favour,
and though the child in me is screaming, ‘it’s not fair!’
I will not share. Call me old fashioned
but sharing once meant generosity,
not endorsing a product or exploiting the latest atrocity,
or promoting yourself while expressing your animosity
at my expense. I have no defence –
though truth declares my innocence,
dignity gags me: I can not show it,
and if that makes me less of a poet
then so be it. Because it’s none of your fucking business.

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