This You Have Done: Poem by Micer Ambrosius

this you have done:

you – and those like you


betrayed, harassed

persecuted, abused


nothing was left undone;

we suffered it all


our livelihoods threatened

exhausted, quite worn out


miserably underpaid

(overworked, of course)


and on top of it all

the old chestnut:


“ blame the victim “,

assuaging your guilt


10. ii.2010