How do the words used to describe the poems arrest help contribute to the idea that the arrest in the poem is unjust

First, let's add the poem to which this question refers:

This poem will be guilty. It assumed it retained

the right to ask its question after the page

came up flush against its face. The purpose

this poem serves is obvious, even to this poem,

and that cannot stop the pen or the fist

choking it. How the page tastes at times—unsalted

powerlessness in this poem’s mouth, a blend

of that and what it has swallowed of the news. It spits

blood—inking. It is its own doing and undoing.

This poem is trying to compose itself. It has

the right to remain either bruised or silent,

but it is a poem, so it hears you’d be safer

if you stopped acting like a poem, ceased resisting.

Where is the daylight (this poem asks and is thus crushed) between existence and resistance,

between the now-bloodied page and the poem?  

Another poem will record the arrest of this poem,

decide what to excerpt. That poem will fail—

it won’t find the right metaphor for the pain

of having to lift epigraphs from the closing

words of poems that were accused of resisting.  

That poem is numb. This poem is becoming

numb, already losing feeling in its cuffed phrasing.

No one will remember the nothing of which

this poem was accused—just that it was another

poem that bled. This poem never expected to be

this poem, yet it must be—for you who will not

acknowledge the question. This poem knew

it was dangerous to ask why?

Answer and Explanation:

We have heard of and seen several cases of unjust arrests and imprisonment. It is, unfortunately, a common occurrence that may take away years and years of someone's life. Those cases are also - and this is a painful reality - very much related to prejudice and racism.

In those cases, people do not have their rights respected. They are beaten, threatened, intimidated to the point of confessing. They are judged and put away, and then they are forgotten. That is precisely what the poem we are analyzing here conveys. The poem's arrest is an unjust one. Let's highlight the words and phrases that contribute to that idea:

This poem will be guilty.

that cannot stop the pen or the fist  /choking it.

It has  / the right to remain either bruised or silent,

unsalted  / powerlessness

It spits  / blood—inking.

No one will remember the nothing of which  / this poem was accused

As we can see above, the author is conveying the suffering of someone who has been unjustly taken, beaten, choked, threatened, and so on. What happens to this poem is sheer cruelty. It cannot defend itself - it is not given a chance to do so.

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explanation:

some sort of sound device i believe.