crumbs from the table have fallen so few so not to catch an eye reckless and thinkless and felled to the knees to gather before the broom what is left amongst the spire that is as tall as the lowest cloud you could reckon the height of hanging on a branch here every time from which we lift these blistered hands only to curse the families get nothing but porridge of maize and shacks at the end of farms cash crops commissioned to pay of the debt and poisoned on the job what is left amongst the spire that is as tall as the lowest cloud you could reckon the height of hanging on a branch here every time from which we lift these blistered hands only to curse driving the mules to death in the wheat then leaving us follow with leather to eat buried their sabers in the field and sharpen bayonets hanging on a branch here every time from which we lift these blistered hands only to curse