Fable

you should recall that in the
old children’s theme park
there is a thin mining town
in the style of an orderly
and more temperate frontier
and if they let you visit
you should go and put you down
locked in the old-fashioned jail
with the solitary cell
where it is quiet so if you
push your face up to the bars
you see clean through them just like
they were never there
if all the tour guards
don’t take your notice
for a while