We’re in the grip of something;

We are not quite sure what.

It’s crew, so strange and shifty,

Is hatching some dark plot.

It once seemed so far from us,

But now starts to inject

Its bigotry and poison

In all it can infect.

It creeps beneath the radar

When attention is elsewhere;

With one grab it conditions

It’s prey inside its lair,

Releasing the...

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The Parchment, The Bullet And The Word

It was old,

old and failing,

and it was loaded

and when I pointed it at him

he shrank back

afraid.

I said

“Do what I want

you to do,

because if you don’t

I will use this.

I’m not afraid

To use this”.

He sank to his knees

and prayed

for forgiveness,

prayed to all his little Gods

that I was bl...

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