Snaps from an old newspaper
Arms akimbo, one hand near its gun,
a masked policeman with ears covered.
Kinky-looking. Undesirable.
Sound goes to it in wires. It obeys,
narrowed eyes no wider than its mouth
(a little open and well-ready -
an unspoken official line in front;
and, as with borders, it is double
in its purpose; and is defended
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A photograph of a meeting room.
There are straight lines; but none are central
and level, some tilted forty-five degrees.
Are these superficial aspects?
The bottom half of the picture curves
in various ways; a hemisphere
of darkness in the middle of what
may be a large, empty round table.
Each chair visible is quite vacant,
a nonce member pricking peoples' names.
That's all that happens here, where money
and the underlying property
are finessed, as one tips a sun blind
to cut down the light, and kindly world
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