Thursday 20 June 2013

Confronting the confrontational


Carrying on with some political verse...

Taking down the fascists

Back then it was all boots in back-alleys,
Dodging bottles and brickbats,
Scanning the passed-round pages of Searchlight magazine
For news of who’s been outed –
Neo-Nazi teacher,
Neo-Nazi policeman,
Neo-Nazi care assistant;
Outed and out,
Hard skins on hard skins,
Abrasive times.

Twenty years later,
Keyboards are weapons –
Explosive blogs and Twitter-storms,
Report-bombing runs in facebook’s
Oh-so-social theatre of war –
Screenshots ring out right-wing alarm-bells,
Sound bigots’ online death-knells,
Watch Hitler-lickers’ mouths go dry –

‘I wuz hacked’,
‘I wuz reachin’ for the phone’,
‘I wuz showing ‘ow tall a sunflower is’ –

No, we all know a sieg heil salute when we see one,
So post, repost and hyperlink;
Hatecrime’s real, even when it’s virtual.

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