Maerin

I read your funny article

It was so true

Both of us have travelled

And have seen how

The cops work in different countries

Indeed I experienced this first hand

White English Middle Class Highly Educated Joe

Had a baton placed over his windpipe

Because he did not understand

A garbled instruction in a Paris subway

In most other countries

If you riot then you are met with force

Batons water canons tear gas rubber bullets

But not here

The cops just stand back

And surrender their car

(not the rainbow ones mind you)

I recently read that something rainbow

Was smeared with red paint

By some vandals who were bored

It is being treated as a hate crime

Whatever that is

I like you a great deal Maerin

But if I hurt you

Would that be a hate crime or a like crime

When we were kids

I always gave you your Lego back

(Have you still got Josie’s Sindy Dolls)

Although the UK is getting worse

(and we all know the reasons why)

The cops instead of showing strength

Do little that matters

And now Kiera Starbucks

Wants to let some of the bad guys

Out of jail

Not just accountants

With hands in the till

But bad guys

Many of whom will re-offend

It is like something out of Kafka

To close and I am thinking of getting glasses

Are some of the senior females

In government swelling up

Or is it an optical illusion

Give me your thoughts

As glasses can be fucking expensive

And unlike Josie I do not look good in them

The world is a mess my friend

And I am still trying to find

A senior female cop

Who has anything approaching

A feminine hairstyle

In Italy and my beloved France

Great numbers of the female cops

Appear to have stepped

Out of the pages of Vogue

Whereas the best we can do

In the UK is Spare Rib or Farmers Weekly

As you can see my pen is becoming irritated again

When in Richmond

You know where I live

But do not tell the cops


Joe