Maerin <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I read your funny article <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was so true <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both of us have travelled <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And have seen how <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cops work in different countries <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indeed I experienced this first hand <\/p>\n\n\n\n
White English Middle Class Highly Educated Joe <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Had a baton placed over his windpipe<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because he did not understand <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A garbled instruction in a Paris subway <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In most other countries <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you riot then you are met with force <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Batons water canons tear gas rubber bullets <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But not here <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cops just stand back <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And surrender their car <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(not the rainbow ones mind you) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I recently read that something rainbow <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Was smeared with red paint <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By some vandals who were bored <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is being treated as a hate crime <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whatever that is <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I like you a great deal Maerin <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But if I hurt you <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Would that be a hate crime or a like crime <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we were kids <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I always gave you your Lego back <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Have you still got Josie’s Sindy Dolls)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although the UK is getting worse <\/p>\n\n\n\n
(and we all know the reasons why) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cops instead of showing strength <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do little that matters <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And now Kiera Starbucks <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wants to let some of the bad guys <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Out of jail <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not just accountants <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With hands in the till <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But bad guys <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of whom will re-offend <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is like something out of Kafka <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To close and I am thinking of getting glasses <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are some of the senior females <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In government swelling up <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or is it an optical illusion <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Give me your thoughts <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As glasses can be fucking expensive <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And unlike Josie I do not look good in them <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world is a mess my friend <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I am still trying to find <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A senior female cop <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who has anything approaching <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A feminine hairstyle <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Italy and my beloved France <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Great numbers of the female cops <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Appear to have stepped <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Out of the pages of Vogue <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whereas the best we can do<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the UK is Spare Rib or Farmers Weekly <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As you can see my pen is becoming irritated again <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When in Richmond <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You know where I live <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But do not tell the cops
Joe <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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