Younger, I sought
the glorification
of house arrest.
Now I am confined.
Home with neither
papers nor time limit.
Yet I have offered
no sedition. Brought
down no regime.
My work is not
banned and I lead
no revolutionary cell.
Amnesty writes no
letters for me. Nice
people hold no placards.
I am gaoled tamely,
denied historic notoriety
by a genocidal microbe.’
