Sunday, 2 January 2011

Secret Police

a crushed packet of
resultant haze
delegating bare-headed trespass,
passing the sheets of information
signed triplicate statements
caught and sort of run amok,
officer
appeared to have struck a blow
and lashed out savagely,
cuffed and gave a surging yell
a glancing crack blow,
darted glance loaded with hiss
that collided with baton

in the doorway a trifle crestfallen went a far abortive venom

- from Revised Rudeness: Cut Ups