Case File: Civil Status
A witness poem by Josef Hammer built from legal articles: the head of the house, the father's signature, and one-half a son.
Article 1105: The head of the house.Your tongue learns the taste of dust.Article 1043: The father's word.Your life awaits his signature.Article 300: The worth of one.One eye. One voice. One-half a son.Your cloth a mandatory shift.Your wage a ghost in the ledger.Your home a space he audits.Your body clocks the labour.Your hands sum the zero.Your breath steams in the cold.
Filed · Josef Hammer