NO MYSTERY in street-apocalypse,
sweet rout of Babylon. Where fat oppression
squats, upheaving force accumulates,
enrighteousing in anger. There you are also
matching your tempo to the hot blood's pulse,
accountable in every measure. STEADY ON.
What language is this? I transliterate
and lose everything: there's no future
in pentameter. DISPOSITION TOWARDS VIOLENT
PROTEST being noted, take MacPherson's
officialese to name its own inertia:
stolid without granting purchase, nebulous
yet ill-affording grace - CONSIDERATION
OF SIMILAR INITIATIVES shelved for the duration.
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Very Brit-centric this one; it helps to know of the Scarman and
MacPherson reports, and of the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Dominic
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