Karma over Birmingham
There’s karma over Birmingham
The gods have got around to us
Who has to pay for their misdeeds?
A Handsworth woman
Will perpetually feel cold
For allowing the marital bed to freeze
In Erdington, the butcher
Is deserted by the wife
He cleaved from his best friend
Three Northfield girls
Forget to lock the door
As they leave their flat to shoplift
In Perry Park
A branch falls on a youth
As he pauses to drop litter
In front of Heartlands Hospital
An ambulance bearing a violent man
Screeches to a halt
At the Magistrates’ Court
The wife of an overzealous bouncer
Obtains a restraining order
In Edgbaston, an uncaring son
Sits in a solicitor’s office
And cries as he inherits what he deserves
On a side-street in Aston
Two drug dealers face each other
And fire simultaneously
In the grounds of the cathedral
A blasphemer is punished
For the sins of others
It’s calmer over Birmingham
The gods have finished for today
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