A man in Derbyshire,
grows trees into chairs.
Oak & willow are tied
to forms, pruned to comply
to templates that determine
their utility & usage
like children bound by
their parent’s religion,
forced & coerced to bow,
to fear, to repeat & repeat
a stale phrase, to believe
or be damned by a lamb,
maliciously slaughtered
for his nonconformity.
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