Madame Defarge

"Found" Poem from A Tale of Two Cities -- 2009

Quick eyes, watching eyes, flashing eyes
By no means delecate
Necessary faith, fatigue.

Shout and shed tears
Disdainful faces of despise
Advantage
A faint and bare existance.

Faces of pride,
So expressly unconscious
Doomed to destruction
Royalty and Nobility

Vengence and retribution
Always advancing
Faint of heart, left behind
It is the rule.

Knitting, still knitting
Knitting away assiduously
So particularly determined
As plain to her as the sun.

In every possible way,
Always preparing, a little depressed
She tied a knot around the King and Queen
Long live the Devil.