Hit The Biggest First

 

Hit the biggest first

It’s become the family mantra

Passed down through the generations

My dad said it to me

And I said it to my kids

Whenever you’re confronted by more than one person

Hit the biggest first

 

I don’t even know how I got here

Out in the street

In front of my own house

Split lip

Buttons torn from my shirt

Stinking of petrol

And encircled by Maggie’s henchmen

 

They have truncheons

My only weapon

A useless lighter

Which failed to spark

 

Hit the biggest first

Not easy when your eyes won’t focus

The world is spinning

I’ll take the biggest out

Before I go down in a hail of truncheons