For no good reason
What if the world was closed
With you on the outside
Looking in, unseen
Would you stay or go?
Every morning this question
Life or death
Awakens the poor
Why?
-Camille Delaquise
This poem appears in The Precipice, Camille’s third contemporary poetry collection. For no good reason reflects on the violence of exclusion with stark simplicity — confronting the reader with the brutal arbitrariness by which poverty turns each new day into a question of survival.