If instead of being hanged by the neck
you're thrown inside
for not giving up hope
in the world, your country, your people,
...
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Intersting read and well written. Nice flow to it and I loked the last line. Kind regards Gyp's
I first read an excerpt from this poem in Elliot Perlman's (excellent) Seven Types of Ambiguity. The lines 'And who knows, / the woman you love may stop loving you. / Don't say it's no big thing: / it's like the snapping of a green branch / to the man inside' haunts me endlessly, especially the last two lines.