A KAFKA'S SISTER NIGHTMARE

The trial light
switched off
the electric chair
pressed us
against the water boarded
filing by a sign of torture
at a Sing Sing's executioner
cellular phone
awakes a ten year old
sick daughter
in remembrance
of Kafka's sister
from her nightmare
across Prague
all the way
to the snows
of the Gulag
toward the party line
in Beijing.