Roll the dice and fill the barrel,

it is the constitutional right

to bare arms and so that makes

it alright and yet people

in the island, set against

the blistering swell of Atlantic Blue

get confused and gnash their flexible

fingers in outrage

as the flash of the blade,

the final cut,

takes a young black lad’s life

in South London

as the Thames gently hugs

the Westminster circus

votes to rain information

down a population

who cannot tell the difference

between Western aggression