NIMBY

• It may seem insensitive at this time
•   but then it’s always insensitive at
• this time
•   to mention
• when
•   everywhere around you
• there is tension
•   where
•  anywhere on earth death
•   mimes
• a vehicle hitting people
•   a knife
• near Churchill’s own dreary steeple
•   or where high-tech bombs
• are rife
•   on mud homes and shanty towns
• indiscriminate
•    and indiscriminate
• where
•    the self-righteous
• frown
•   and show-off their ladies
• in expensive gowns
•   you gulp in wonder
• at the self-delusion
•   the peeping blood-stained teeth
• the claws in their sheath
•   the pious word straining through
• gut and entrails
•   the barbarous wail

Wilson John Haire

 

A STEPPE TOO FAR

• The claque is in place
•   the tapes are ready to run
• vitriol sets the pace
•   the tanks are ready
• the quivering missiles
•   steady
• now for the enemy
•   the graves without a name
• the ruinous end without a
•   remedy
• defeat
•   the yapping blame game
• the uncontrolled
•   conceit

Wilson John Haire.