the last demonstrator
holds up a placard
with nothing written on it
people stop to look
and read there
what they want to read
a prophecy of doom
a message of hope
a recipe for living
a horoscope
left-wing propaganda
or a revelation
a plan to save the world
from devastation
one of the passers-by
calls the police
who when they’ve read
what she has to say
put her in a van
and take her away
*Endling: a word coined in 1996 for the last individual member of a species, on the death of which the species becomes extinct.
Dominic Rivron