Uncharged
Their pleasure malicious
in it trying
to degrade humiliate him but
he switched himself
off from years of practice bashed
against a wall and blocking out mams black
eyed tears
their convenient target took him in
their car they
had the power
to do
it
No
one will come if
you shout
for help they said bend over fingers
up his bum gratuitous full body
search they called
it because they could it was
part of the game their right
and left
him hours alone wondering
would they do if then at
last they let him
go
home shaky then
he painted out
his
anger
[original version published in a Poetry Now anthology, 1993]
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A vulnerable teenager in a new town - his first time away from home.
ReplyDeleteThe local police looking for a "result" in a mugging - he fits the vague description of young white male medium height (though no mention of the specs he can't see without, as he gathered when they asked him to take them off).
They casually mentioned just exactly how much had been stolen from an old lady's handbag. Then they checked his rectum....