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John Bryan
Photograph of an escape

why did you take that!
i mean really -
this picture only provokes
a thousand expletives from me
i wonder are you serpentine
in Max Dupain form?

how dare you
lock me in this time capsule
with these idiots grinning fools
i would not be seen dead with,
let alone suspended
my soul did not want to burn with
once i steal the negative

breaking free
of your constructs
through a hole, cut out,
grabbing the width lifting upwards,
subversion inside this four walled ghetto
no one noticing my escape
they're all still smiling

caught for the camera

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