Sharp, short, & to the point, Dominic. Glances off the armour of...
Doug
On 27-Apr-10, at 2:25 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> THE ENEMY WITHIN is occupier's
> cant for native truculence - DOWN WANTONS
> DOWN, shrilled as a battle cry. Their law
> is checkpoints, riot vans in trysting-places,
> curfew's stale enclosure; yet overground
> the guisers swarm, chanting rebellion's
> snatches of song, the oldest catches known.
> Men stand together, shirtless in the sun
> at Orgreave; women crouch beside the baton-
> struck and trampled. Gobbets of scrap metal
> go volleying over, improvised defence
> against short-shielded masters of concussion.
> Some fall to savagery; some rise to courage.
> The rider leans in; the cosh begins its swing.
>
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