It’s the stuff they don’t tell you about in schools

that when you find out about them, the sheer arrogance

and mocking laughter that comes off the screen

or jumps out at you

from a previously unread book that realise with distaste

and agony that yet again the liars have composed the score

and the tune has become unpalatable.

 

How is it possible that education does not prepare

you for the crimes in Indonesia in nineteen-sixty-eight

that were before your time

but so much closer than the radical deeds of a supposed heretic