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.

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