Thursday, January 11, 2018

Jannock ... Warning

Today’s word is “jannock” ... jan-uh k ... British, Australian Informal. honest; fair; straightforward. (Dictionary.com)

Warning
The town square,
     is not jannock anymore.
We speak and type and tweet
     like prisoners whose captors
          hold the keys.
Our cries are silenced, muted, buried ...
     out of fear that a thought, unlike the rest,
          will upset the world.
All pretense of leveling
     is gone.
The question is, how do we loose our bonds,
     and allow all thought to flourish?
Truth cannot be caged. It roams where it will.
     Those who try to tame it,
          May be eaten.

Anne Selleck
Copyright 2018

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