Greg Baines – ‘About a Saint’

G

is called

(Was) ‘Revolutionary’.

distorted t shirt fronts

feet buried

in concrete.

 

words swallowed

self-help pills.

In bronze.

Syntax torn

from lingering
roots.

#.

sold.

 

bright plastic

petrochemical packaging.

sacred phrases

fired from
relentless rifled lips

by those who would have sunk the nails in

(Then).

 

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