Here, where you all are,

language is an accessory

 

to bodies lying in the street,

prone in government rooms,

 

bloated in the waterways.

Or language is an accessory

 

to the refutation of bodies

lying etc. This too will pass

 

as search vessels in the delta

pass for smuggling operations

 

bringing illicit food to refugees

being autocued for media

 

appearances. What commerce

would you with us all. What

 

coverage can you offer for

coastal breach, aid refusal,

 

for the taut sinews and caught

breath of seated uprisen monks.