"The life of the bandit, like that of the sacred man, is not a piece of animal nature without any relation to law and the city. It is rather, a threshold of indistinction and of passage between ainmal and man, physis and nomos, exclusion and inclusion: the life of the bandit is the life of the loup garou, the werewolf, who is precisely neither man nor beast, and who dwells paradoxically within both while belonging to neither". agamben, homer sacer, 1998, pg 105
we will be excepted
from your regime of peace
to haunt the back streets of your soul
and finally
you too
will flee your sovereignty
to the dark inbetweens
be assured
we will maul you given the chance
and you
resolute even in shreds
will be replaced by the woman with the lipstick smile
your crimes
fueling the vigour of her redress