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When The Tax Collector Comes by babtoundey(m): 11:08pm On Jun 08, 2017 |
WHEN THE TAX COLLECTOR COMES When the tax collector comes In his armored stance of stony glare Bear him to the field of my hollow penury If he reasons I should grow, we may be friends When he comes Flapping his files of oppressive records Lead his feet to the heart of my yard That he may smile at the grin of curious corpses Of toddlers buried at the grip of preventable fever Of mothers that end at the passage of child bearing Of travelers whose flesh feed the holes of ugly paths Of the innocents swallowed by the bullet of no-safety If he thinks He knows a gift of vestal poisons eunuch's virtue When the tax collector comes Make his congealed eyes sight the sore of my deprivations That he may cease to sort to sulk from my empty pot of hope When he comes Ranting in his warring robe and anger Armed with his ink and friendless smile Bring him forth That he may risk the fury of penniless buglars And lick from the pains of unpaid workers If he thinks He knows he keeps the trust of a stateless state When the tax collector comes With his heavy heart of impassive glare Bear him to the knowledge my abuse If he thinks He knows the unjust of his justice Then we may be friends |
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