Pilate washing his hands
Do you (wash your hands)
Do you
wash your hands
in these trying times
of the politricking
not just from those
financially ahead
at the royal feeding trough
there are soothsayers
and clever-dicks and all
those who phone in
incessantly to radio stations
and pen social media epics
Do you
wash your hands
You who are
Unemployed and Unwashed
(even Poor and Unshaven)
Malnourished and Starving
Unhoused and Landless
and Illiterate too to boot
Do you
wash your hands
of Gender-Based Violence
and all that goes with it
(is there a Gender Audit)
Are you stocking up
on toilet paper and batteries
and baked beans and the like
perhaps even travelling points
as you daily go
from your dark place
to light
as you daily go
from the ghetto
of your mind
to that of others
Do you
wash your hands
of all of this
and look at yourself
Pilate Washing his Hands
(Picture Credit 1: The Metropolitan Museum of Art) (Picture Credit 2: The Tate Gallery)
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