Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
And our past loves.
Do I really have to remember all that again
The peoples of the earth rushed to find out who they were
The dead shivered with fear in their dark dwellings
My mouth will have ardors of Gehenna
My mouth will be a hell for you of sweetness and seduction
Men of the future remember me
I lived in the days when there stopped being kings
Always
We shall go further and never get anywhere
Open up can’t you hear me crying at your door
Will we never hear midnight sound
Finally I have a right to greet strangers
Who pass and gather a little ways off
Our story is noble and tragic
As the face of a tyrant not fun not for everyone
Ah
Mother, the dead
Mother, the dead are deafening now.