Catherine's Wheel

I feel as though I've lost a limb
because I cannot walk I'll swim
cut this knot beneath my throat
bequeathed a plastic gem of hope which only melted in the sun
leave me to rock upon the waves of this chlorine water maze, having none
dark as the ocean deep in the ghostland
keys were stolen from the guards broke our fingers in the bars
broken on the wheel
caught with an extra crust of bread, golden teeth from off the dead
just a trespass from the tents on the wrong side of the fence
digging trenches with a spade badly shined the captain's boot
a simple enough deception from which there's scarce protection
if we'd been manufactured could we tell?