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A POLICEMAN'S LOT

Your humour turns flowers to weeds

that started life as simple seeds

cut down by comment and a jaded tongue

so ugly to see in one so young.

You strip the skin from its living form

whatever you say is never the norm.

but in your search for petty glory

you write the end to a flaying story.

Never submit to an honest wit

Identify the source and spread your shit.

For in your threadbare grasp of life

you reap the harvest with a knife

blunted by a heavy hand that

leads you back from the promised land.

Think not of the feelings of your victims

just press on with your phoney dictums.

Your work with the Metropolitan Police

will enforce a very uneasy peace,

so as you rise towards supremacy

suppression will be your natural legacy.

◄ TO BE IN A BAND

ON THE OTHER SIDE ►

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 8th Jun 2015 15:54

I remain unsure about the aim or the target in lines that
vary from the opening somewhat general tone to the more
specific relating to "one so young" who could be employed
by the Metropolitan Police (but in what capacity?).
It seems that someone somewhere has upset the writer
of this post!

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raypool

Sat 6th Jun 2015 19:09

Hi David,

I've really done it now! No axe to grind really, but observations especially about one person who is also a musician. All the sensitivity of paint stripper....
I expect I will ruffle a few feathers. It is a difficult job and demands all the timing and foresight of a bungee jumper no doubt. cheers. Ray

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sat 6th Jun 2015 17:36

This is, perhaps, a bit strong, even biased, but you still make a very apt case with some good points.

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