City Limits

passing the city limits you can see how others (the poor) live and die; their scrabbling for rotten turnip, disturbs the fresh earth, their smell pervades the air: passing the city limits brings home the effect of the third great war; disease,autocracy, poverty and greed of course ( never off limits). there are no wateralls there, only sandpits with voracious weeds, planted there by unknowing small birds and other creatures, keen to stake their claim: but if they had language wouldn’t they shout in keen discourse ”Up with the new order!” or “Down with the new!”… that’s supposing they had a larynx or two? Peter Lewis Holmes 2/8/15 for contest... Limits