Perfect Joy Poem by Charlotte Peters Rock

Perfect Joy



she wasn't
Temper - violent
Children - various
Colour - brown
(counts as black)
Age - middle
Sex - female
Status - illegal

Sentence - deportation
Method - 13 feet of tape
to hush her mouth

Conclusion - deportation
...of a kind

Deported from
temper
children
colour
age
sex
illegality
life
Joy

'The woman's name was Joy. She was killed by the UK deportation system.'

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