(NB. A third of the way through already. This piece is about power and how you use it)

Part X

The air whistled with electrons

Bursting like a bottle

Minus it’s sparkle,

As Ghana looked

At Andy

Then Michelle

‘Where did you find him

Michelle?

Are all upsiders so stupid?’

Without looking

Michelle

Stared

Into the shadows

‘He was the saviour

at Anchor of the ridge

and stopped

the snip

upside at Pic’

choking slightly

on dusk

Ghana coughed

‘I know of you’

thrashing her lips together

like she had

just witnessed

a crucifixion on a hill.