Friday, 13 October 2023

We know where the Huntsman lives


 
We know about the author 
who likes getting off on torture
writing doorstops of smug thuggery 
to settle petty scores;

we know about her charity

enabling depravity 

from back alleys in Bucharest

to Port-au-Prince’s shores; 


we see the politicians

wink and make insinuations

to ensure your misdirection 

as, magicians of suspicion,


they hide the hand that disappears

their colleagues’ allegations;

the columnists who polish up 

once-tarnished reputations,


dressing up facilitation 

as rehabilitation, 

as they cutely euphemise

their grooming 


as ‘home-schooling’, 

call their trafficking ‘adoption’

and expect us to be fooled. 

But we see through


their find-the-lady hand-jive

and their prestidigitation.

We’re wise to their forces

and we know the fucking score.


We know where the lady is,

and we know who the groomers are,

and we know where the Huntsman lives

and we refuse to be prey anymore:


We know where the Huntsman lives. 

We’re breaking down his door. 

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