Roll the dice and fill the barrel,

it is the constitutional right

to bare arms and so that makes

it alright and yet people

in the island, set against

the blistering swell of Atlantic Blue

get confused and gnash their flexible

fingers in outrage

as the flash of the blade,

the final cut,

takes a young black lad’s life

in South London

as the Thames gently hugs

the Westminster circus

votes to rain information

down a population

who cannot tell the difference

between Western aggression

and the Russian Bear’s right

to arm, right to disarm,

or why some people

in a meeting hall

minding their own business

in a Californian sunshine land

would be killed by a gun

when they are not at war

with religious ideology.

Nobody knows,

Nobody knows

Where the merry-go-round

goes

next.

 

Ian D. Hall 2015.