AucklandPoetry.com presents Poet Resident JAN OSKAR HANSEN on http://OSKAR.AUCKLANDPOETRY.COM

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

the escapee

The Escapee


When the uniformed arrested him they used “Taser “
because he didn’t stop when called to do so, but it
appeared to have done him no harm told them he had
forgiven them, an easy prisoner they thought he was
a religious nut, but there was something about him that
made them wary. They placed him in a lone cell
brought him coffee and he told his keeper he had been
away for a long time. The officer who brought him
coffee was in no doubt it was the lord savour who had
returned, he said so to and was quickly relieved of his
duty. There was an odd silence at the station that night,
the officers on duty didn’t feel like banter and making
crude they looked inwards Thinking of the meaning of
life; and in the morning when they came to take to court
he had disappeared. The case was not brought to public
attention it would make the police look ridiculous that
one of them had let the prisoner go because he thought
the man was Christ. Case forgotten it was Easter with lots
religious processions to guard and peace to keep

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