Gag Order
Gag Order
After the tide
took care, there were left
coathangers.
Their metal jetter
than jackdaw–how sharply
they gyred.
The men urging the tide,
the men who’d made
pity less, used only
wooden hangers, fit for an artifice
of shoulder, patting down empty suits
in ceremonies
of shiny serge
while the women’s insides tattered,
poor women.
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Draft poem for Kerry O’ Connor’s Get Listed prompt on With Real Toads to use certain words from Yeats.
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ManicDDaily 
January 29, 2017 at 1:09 pm
The empty suits.. or the naked emperors… we seem to see the same. The gag order is something that scares me more than anything else actually.
January 30, 2017 at 9:24 am
the men who’d made
pity less..
Such an outstanding statement in a very thought-provoking poem.
January 30, 2017 at 10:18 am
Thanks, Kerry.
January 31, 2017 at 12:41 am
I can’t believe what has happened. Your words are a powerful telling of it.
February 1, 2017 at 5:17 pm
😦