Drifting through... with Matt Nõmme

Paper cuts and hi-vis thugs

I watched hi-vis thugs round up the old

for carrying placards with human dreams

nuns

veterans

teachers

miners

plumbers

dragged them along double yellow lines

and locked them behind Majorica pearl gates.

Ever got a paper cut from a nun

Holding a protest sign?

Carves up your soul

And serves you to her God for judgement.

she’s not scared

of some corporeal cell

held together with taxes

and mortal subservience.

I swear

If Jesus walked these streets today

a British copper would cuff that commie cunt

and read him his rights,

throw him in the back of a van,

go through his laptop

lookin for clues of conspiracies,

of mania

“this bloke thinks he’s the son of god”

they’d say

before having him sectioned.

and when I’m at those gates

at the end of it all

and St Peter says to me

Ever got a paper cut from a nun?

I’ll say.

I’m not a copper.

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