IMMUNISATION
- Who brought death to France
- after London had seen it dance
- did Superman knock over the
- twin-towers
- who laughs while Gaddafi cowers
- Bin Laden knew his history
- now his whereabouts is a mystery
- good government is blown to bits
- Obama approves Thursday’s drone list
- when Saddam died his soul arose as
- ISIS
- the feral cat becomes a tiger in a
- crisis
- three witches stir the brew
- one is the EU
- the others you already knew
- it’s the Porton Down of thought
- some viruses you made
- a few you caught
- it’s outrage on the small screen
- when the antidote works and justice has
- been
Wilson John Haire
WHEN WE THINK OF VICTORY
- It takes an air-raid to
- upbraid
- while locked in your
- emotional cell
- a time of atonement
- indiscretions remembered
- reparations sort of meant
- in an atmosphere
- of dismemberment
- waiting for it to be over
- over
- while all around
- hovers
- the surgeon’s knife
- cutting through concrete
- taking life
- not always precise
- Guernica still burns
- sometimes in lieu
- it burns for
- you.
Wilson John Haire.
Labour Affairs Magazine 