open guard
no defence possible
sore throat
© Rachel Green November 2025
But it's Traditional. Like Public Hangings.
Please tell me again that it's victimless fun
to put gunpowder on Britain's streets and beach lands
while children in Scarborough suffer from burns
when fireworks go off in their wool-mittened hands.
Merseyside flats turn into inferno
when teens fire rockets through windows
and turn on the fire crews attending the go
to extinguish the rooms that are starting to glow.
New Street in Birmingham sees several youth
in hoodies and ski masks attacking a bus
that is packed with commuters and shoppers in truth
with fireworks and rockets and causing a fuss.
One an act of defiance I think is alright:
the thirty-foot Starmer which burned in the night.
© Rachel Green November 2025
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