Blare

(on Tony Blair's remarks in a lecture given in Cardiff)

He calls it "lurching into total frankness"
decrying the "young black kids" going outside
"the proper lines of respect and good conduct,"
The guns and knives begetting Britain's tide

Of violent crime. How long ago he crossed
the line of international law himself,
he mentioned not, nor, worse than guns, the bombs
he ordered plundering Iraq's oil wealth.

What pious bleating from 10 Downing Street,
as if our pilots, safe in cockpit seats
or armchair monsters in executive suites
were better than thugs in our city streets.

The state of lawlessness starts at the top,
The prime minister's precedent shows how,
So, filled with fury, knowing his time is short,
Blair's lurching into total madness now.

Apr. 11, 2007