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DUE PROCESS

DUE PROCESS

give the Devil
his due

saw him hauled into
court for
every human rights
violation in
the book

mainly because
he wrote the book
(proudly proclaiming
we are
    still
   only half through it)

been up to his crimes
against us
    since the beginning
of time

which i am here
to spin as
  errors of omission, simple
misdemeanors

with this battery of lawyers
up against us
how on Earth could
guilt be proved
beyond
reasonable, terrible,
existential doubt

and with jury
of peers from
    the ranks and files of
humanity
carefully conscripted

and that Jagger-
Richards song fatally ringing
in all
    our ears

a convinction on
even the slightest and
most trivial and
totally indefensible
political offence
amongst all
of which he
stands accused of
commiting since
the dawn
of time itself

impoosible to get
the court
sure

to reject
   upon which, as I open
my case for the defence,

would
   bet my life and
immortal soul itself

so give the Devil his due
his day
    in court and

trust the process

ABOUT

ABOUT

so South is heading North
turning
     things
around

the globe
in your bedroom
best turn it
upside down

South on
    the Equator

giving its all
     all that it takes

dreaming
        a new vision

no more
Northern mistakes

so
South
heading North

simple
replacement;
this what it about

WRONG

WRONG

you have
us wrong

you do us
wrong

we are not
the head or leg
or foot or
arm of this

thing or
the other

thpugh we may
undsrsand them
better than
you do

understand you too
better than you

understand yourselves

who once gave us
a weapon
    to destroy ourselves
.
across a chess board in
the endgame

all of one player
use it
     to anniliate all
of the
other

except, by
grace of God and
the smarts in our head

you saw us
     met us in court
               working together

despite your insults and
cheap shots

so clearly
    to your detriment

unless you learn
      what we have you learn
would teach you good

the way is bad
                  but there is another

LAST LAUGH I BELIEVE

LAST LAUGH I BELIEVE libraries of law rendered irrelevant thanks to an insult of a defence premised on the untenable presented as if it were an ad campaign and all we have now is shark in the tank and biggest gets to eat everything great white nosing its way in speed huge as a submarine think it’s just going to laugh if I proclaim myself to have court protection, have injunction, cease fire, have restraining order catch all those rows of serrated teeth last laugh is his I believe

A WORD

A WORD

let me have a word

let me fill
you in
from a poetry

am going to need
twenty, maybe
thirty
thousand
characters already

oops1 sorry,
my apology

did I say
“characters”?

that was a bit
of a fatal Freudian slip

I meant to say “words”;
no sorry: lines

no I am completely wrong

in the wrong

to do this justice
I need to write
the final
death count
as poems

MAMBAS

MAMBAS so complacent and complacent yet again left-brain, right wing such recipe for human stupidity deluding yourselves into expecting slow worms when we came as mambas — venom measured to make maximum use of every critical drop and prempting rebuttal speed off ths charts impossible to catch us and how you floundered losing your sense of place and actual places slipping into paralysis mamba neurotoxic venom stealing into your system taking slow but incontravertibly catastrophic effect