Tissue

• "the back of the Koran"


  religious texts form the foundations of a person or society, it calibrates their moral compass and hope

  suggests how our lives are already written and humans have no contol
• "credit card might fly our lives like paper kites"


  simile shows how easy it would be to remove materialism from our lives, suggesting money has power over us

  kites require wind to fly so nature agrees with this liberation
• "layer over layer and never to wish to build again with brick"


  metaphor shows that a fragile and weak thing like paper can become strong enough when put together; implying humans need to unite to become truly powerful

  could also be a symbol of human tissue as organs are made up of layers of tissues suggesting the significance of paper and without small things everything would fall apart
• poems to compare:

  Ozymandias

  Storm on the Island