COFFEE WITH PERCY

Percy B
grabbing a coffee
with me
precious few moments
in that exalted,
dangerous company

both of agreeing, of one mind,
deeply disturbed that
V for Vendetta
now looks so prescient,
has aged so well

man of Ozymandias
and the Peterloo cavalry charge

sharing my
conviction that
massacre be
the fascist sublime

poem
being my poor
little despised counterweight,
heresy of choice

Published by Damian Garside