Villanelle: Break Not Chains Sartre Hooked On Ankles In Disdain
Villanelle: Break not chains Sartre hooked on ankles in disdain
Break not chains Sartre hooked on ankles in disdain
No Lawrence outsider sups with wooden spoon
Don’t bitter gruel course through low coolie-lines vein
One thing’s to espouse the cause of mighty swain
Another to champion masses without boon
Break not chains Sartre hooked on ankles in disdain
Shut not windows when floors are not wet with rain
Let not those who suffocate force you to swoon
Don’t bitter gruel course through low coolie-lines vein
Who writes in huis clos invisible inane
Turn Left to stand up for the ‘pariah’ goon
Break not chains Sartre hooked on ankles in disdain
How much less harm this world could have borne sans pain
If only from mouth you spat out silver spoon
Don’t bitter gruel course through low coolie-lines vein
Go tell the coolie his life is his to brain
Break existential chain with will not too soon
Break not chains Sartre hooked on ankles in disdain
Don’t bitter gruel course through low coolie-lines vein
(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2017
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2017
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