'Christmas at Dartmoor 2022' by Sean Bw Parker
Sons of Alison Saunders
The sons of Alison Saunders line up
Sitting hunched on Bauhaus chairs, furrowed brows
in black Listeners polo sweaters and blue pinstriped
visitors shirts
Swinging from the tree by the fishpond
at the back of the wing is a lanyard
Abandoned by a Samaritan or maybe a prisoner
released
‘Complainants never lie’
Says Alison, banging up thousands
of insufficiently risk-averse men,
up and down the land
Evidence is not needed with the balance
of probabilities; as the delicate balance
of reason struggled, gasping above
the Koy
Another dangerous man off the street
Another scalp in the culture war
The Oxbridge class of ‘69
or thereabouts, grinning with glistening
tears from behind the door.
Sean Bw Parker (2018)
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