The News from M—

Here, where you all are,
language is an accessory

to bodies lying in the street,
prone in government rooms,

bloated in the waterways.
Or language is an accessory

to the refutation of bodies
lying etc. This too will pass

as search vessels in the delta
pass for smuggling operations

bringing illicit food to refugees
being autocued for media 

appearances. What commerce
would you with us all. What 

coverage can you offer for 
coastal breach, aid refusal,

for the taut sinews and caught 
breath of seated uprisen monks.