Twenty-six police injured during sectarian rioting in Belfast
The Guardian, 3 September 2012
Their kind gathers to feast
at about the same times
on the same meat and veg,
but with a pinch more spice
to their grace. They wear
the same shades of Ulster grey
and seem so like us away
from their gravelly estates
they might be taken for human
save for lowering their sights
when our paths meet, taking
pains to conceal their defiance
and fooling no one. True colours
bleed out when lines get crossed.
(c) 2012 Andy Hickmott
First published in Interpreter's House vol 52
'Dedicated to the best in poetry'
Wow. So good -- and so fast...
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