DARK DEEDS BY THE RIVER OF JANUARY
- Corticosteroid Triamcinolone
- re-colours the fading flag
- Prednisolone
- stiffens it before it sags
- Salbutamol
- accusations
- cages the Russian bear
- (TUEs) Therapeutic-Use-Exceptions
- only
- for those with the right to win
- in the Rio glare
- Paralympics fit as fleas
- an able-bodied Olympian
- and the morphine drip
- for a stiff knee
- the manic medium
- odium
- war-cries from the triumphalist
- podium
- sport as war
- war as sport
- always for export
Wilson John Haire.
