Limbless Dog Poem by Nassy Fesharaki

Limbless Dog



Limbless dog

Selfish I, surely am…
And simple, internet…

I am lost among sites…
And news, and my name…
Google has the pages…
Who am I, why countless?

I stop with regret
Head is lost as drunk….

“Is released after some forty years.”
I read loud.

I stop…look around…read comments…
I see that he is black.

I dig in…deep and deep, into past,
All of such are blacks, Indians,
The deprived of one kind,
Hunted or occupied…

I damn me for knowing how to read, and surf the internet.
Wish I was lonely dog, missing limb in Peru, with a cart…
Made by man…he himself was beggar.

Limbless Dog
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: empathy
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Albert Woodfox, inmate who spent 40 years in solitary, ordered released
Judge bars prosecutors from trying Woodfox again after 2 verdicts overturned
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