A Book of Torture Methods
This stone tablet
But where printed
In Babylon
In Babylon then there is a child
One who uses and uses us
But we are not this
That greets us
On the very first pages
The eyes of another
The mouths,the lips of another
Printed in Babylon
Onto our lives
As they open out
One by one
Ece Ayhan (translated by Neil Doherty)
