Why shout abuse
at a body in a box?
An old woman dies
An iron woman is smelted
A mother
A grandmother
A so-called milk snatcher
A heroine
A villain
A political first
A maverick
A ball buster
Not just a talker
Why cry, some would say?
A character that stood out through successes
and failures
Show me the perfect leader and I will show you
someone who looks upon them as a tyrant and vice versa.
87 years of life placed in a box
People line the streets few cry, but they do
clap or hold respectful silence
People line the streets and turn their backs;
some boo, whilst doing so.
The media place a price tag on the funeral
adding a few drops of hatred, hot sauce to the recipe
.
Elsewhere people parade a woman’s effigy
through their streets before setting it on fire. Young children sit atop the
shoulders of their cheering parents as black smoke forces their eyes to water.
Teenagers film proceedings with their phones for digital posterity. The
toothless and those with wobbling dentures yelp the best they can.
An old woman dies
How deep will the past prove to run?
