at a glance
will arrest you

will stop you in your tracks

and search you
armed with stone and mortar

full force in the face

painting these walls must have been a fistfight

plastic bullet words

petrol bomb brushstrokes

paint stirred in the blood
with blood and smoke

there will never be a peace settlement between

mural billboard graffiti

no plaster decommissioning

when these walls start talking to you
it's time to rethink your life