Lamentation of the Borderguard

Gali-Dana Singer

1998

I do not want to be a borderguard, said the borderguard.

I don’t want to be a bodyguard.

I don’t want to be a guardian angel.

I don’t want to be a guide.

I want not to be a grinder.

I don’t want to be a garnet.

I don’t want to be a guerdon.

I don’t want to be a gaud.

But my own unwillingness is grinding and grounding me

and I’m standing on guard…

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