He shouted out his lectern promises and curses

Across the park

Talking to all and everyone who might listen

Even if they did not want to hear

His spat- out rhetoric

About them and they and those invisible others

Those indivisible masters of the cloaked off words

Who cannot be named

Yet he states everybody knows

And the dire consequences that will be metered out

To those they and them

For they have done and all that they have not

To quell the fury of the masses

His mouth dry

His eyes wide eyed and full of warning

To the conformist and anyone who might disagree

 

He walks in a straight diagonal line

Occasionally stopping to see if anyone one is watching

Perhaps some heavily disguised goon from the authority

Of they them and those

Or any takers of the word

Some new born believers of the truth espoused by he

Who knows all there is to know about they those and them

The planners the guardians

Of the knowledge

About the collection of refuse parking roadworks

Town planning, the council

The hospitals the NHS covid phone masts

The black hole of government

With the finer points of plots plans and conspiracies

To the point of deviation

And all of those others that hide behind their

Masks of apparent indifference and mediocrity

Those that everybody knows about but are all afraid to ask

Because everybody knows about

They those

And most of all

Them