Saturday 26 November 2022

26th November 2022



outdoor tables
through the yellow birch leaves
a first glimpse of sunshine

© Rachel Green November 2022

 There was *insert name here"
*doing something that rhymes with the name*
in the stores
in the stores.
repeat first two lines then:
in the Quartermaster's stores.

An old scouting song runs through my head
for days upon end.
Literally fifty years since I was a scout
and I left because they made us go to church
as if to make us moral adults
when we know its misogyny and racism
and the homophobia of terrified closeted people.
Yes, I learned some skills that came in useful:
wild camping, bondage,
and how to hate someone
because their woggle was a different colour,
but all they really wanted was to shunt children
into the cannon fire of future politics,

© Rachel Green November 2022
 

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