DONALD HALL

Private company
on public archives
what politically correct
files on their lives
where non compliant verse
was once set on
only bedroom wives,
verse was in correspondences
to incense the Karma of Shiva
or from false gods of Baudelaire
now complaints do not
air in Parvarti tea rooms,
only a handful of poets
will challenge the foothold
once thoughtful critics
of the Sun ,Globe and Times
now accosted because
the liberty lobby
is closed indefinitely
for repair
yet now and forever
with the clever sign 1984
on the iron steel door
with an eternal prosecutor
waiting to be next governor
and a charges d'affaire officer
with Nixonian political crimes
delivering blue laws
in carbon copy
for our own days.