Tony Blair Mourns the Death of Martin McGuinness

by Neil Fulwood / March 26th, 2017

Later, he will blame it on a technical fault
but right now the swoosh of noise
battering his words away from the microphone
is less the crackly static of a feedback loop
than the sound of one hand clapping
magnified a million times – a vast protest
of single hands clapping at the unapplaudable.
It’s the sound of pebbles raining onto other pebbles
or a light shower of debris scattering over tarmac.

Neil Fulwood has published three collections with Shoestring Press, ‘No Avoiding It’, ‘Can’t Take Me Anywhere’ and ‘Service Cancelled’. A collection of political satires, ‘Mad Parade’ has just been published by Smokestack Books. Neil lives and works in Nottingham. Read other articles by Neil.

This article was posted on Sunday, March 26th, 2017 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.