Break them into atoms
and watch them fizz.
These little millions
in hollowed-out towns
(warring with their own
and misdirected)
are grubby fodder
for the hate expedient.
Wind them up and watch them go:
now a man cuts a mother’s throat.
Jody Porter
Pic: © Roger Wright
Pic: © Roger Wright
Jody Porter is poetry editor of socialist daily newspaper the Morning Star. His poetry is forthcoming in the Best British Poetry 2013 from Salt, and has also appeared in South Bank, Rising, as well as in the anthologies Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot and The Robin Hood Book: Verse Versus Austerity.