it’s as if centuries, centuries have passed
and the headlines confirming amnesia
will be subject to diagnosis, repeated –
not by us, but by those who’ve yet to live
into the boundaries now being constructed.
The old, mad, blind myth does the rounds.
The opportunist passes for the passionate
and dutiful observers make their notes,
repeating critiques they’ve read elsewhere.
Such days are reliably tempestuous.
You could be walking along a seafront
and there’ll be that view across the water
and the newspapers held open like cures.
December 2019
Image from The Daily Mirror - coverage of an EDL march in the UK.
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