Brawl
You’re a dirty ugly stain on the clean sheets of society.
A small section of people laughed then went cold as a cave -
A lightning punch was thrown, striking a worried face with a crack.
The walls seem to shake with this explosion of anger and hatred.
A strong tatooed arm swung a cue, slicing the air, missing its target.
A pint glass thrust forward into an unlucky face, twice it pierced to bone.
Blended blood seeped fast and warm,, into blue carpet and green baize.
The public doors were locked, trapped an assortment of insects on a web.
Some fled to the tiny toilet windows, pure white fashion, became dusty,
grimy, torn.
Bottles flew, screams echoed, tables and chairs scattered, sirens in the
distance.
Blue cloth, and waving truncheons burst on to the scene, stomachs turned.
Force and handcuffs arrested as usual, all the wrong perpiring faces . . .
Blue, red, flashes drove off into the night, crowds watched, rumours
floated.
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