Body Politic Poem by Laurence Overmire

When a back is turned
A person disappears
Out of view of no
Concern

So easy so
Beautiful in its simple
Resolution
Even the screams, anger and pain

Fade in a distance far behind
An echo thrown against a wall
Like a ventriloquist's dummy

With no real voice.

~ Laurence Overmire

(Previously published in Terra Incognita: Oregon Poets Write for Ecological, Social, Political and Economic Justice, Bob Hill Publishing, LLC,2019)