WITH SHARP EARS
why is there no silence?
who duffed when
the instructions coming
down from the top
could not have been
clearer
regarding redacting
everything, turning
everything invisible,
burying, covering up
who allowed Captain
Nemo to become
my childhood hero
without
lecturing me
on his, origins,
explaining the true
history of
India
and the geopolitics of
the time
making the Nautilus aa much
a weapon as a refuge and
vehicle for
scientific investigation?
and me reading the passage
detailing Nemo’s terrible act
of revenge
on the poor passing troopship
not seeing
the obvious
all those drowning desperate
soldiers
sinking to the bottom of
the ocean in
their
red uniforms
for what
other colour could they
conceivably be?
silence down there too
where the
Nautilus speaks
listens with
sharp ears
poems 2 die for 