Cold Shoulder
Between them,
they think they may have
managed to crucify him ..
Starve him, and be sure
to freeze him out they cried
My word, how they did try ..
Indeed, they made
a solemn pact, upon a vague
uncertain line somewhere ..
Discreetly stuck together
so they did .. Oh yes, indeed
and somehow, firmly lodged ..
Bound by fear
between new found bitterness
and those age old chestnuts ..
The logic of fools,
a supreme cold shoulder
and mutual unfounded paranoia ..