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Advance!

April Flurry

Being Santa

Birthday

Brush Strokes

Byronic

City of Dreams

Cook and Drive

Do A Little, Leave A Lot

Ed Cases

Egg

Girl With One Track Mind (Sexhunters)

Glory Sealed

Haiku Firework

Hangover

Holiday Camp

I Fell in Love on the Northern Line

I Fought The Law and I Won

Jack Dove (Canto 1)

January Blue

Job Sonnet

Jury Service

Letter to February

Lewes (Till I Die)

Loving You

Madhouse

Meat Elegy

My Best (Wasn't Good Enough)

Odd Ends

Our Neighbours

Ownsome Valentine

Persian Sailing

Probably Not

Road Kill

Salsa

Saturday Night at the J H Tavern

Slam Door

Smoke In The Night

Snowscape

The Fight

The Last Word

The Liger

Whilst on Lose Hill

Women


Image of police car

I Fought The Law and I Won

At first The Wall of Blue
seemed utterly impenetrable,
the coppers would not heed my call,
they were hardly listening at all,
snatching my car was absurd,
never again would I drive The Last Word
in Luxury - my true and trusty chariot
in fire-engine red with sounds, cooker - the lot!

so I wrote to the Chief Constable,
to see what he might do,
a note a thousand words in duration,
the Chief ordered an investigation,
his force's lies and gaffes were picked apart,
my complaint came staight from the heart,
the subjunctive was my choice of truncheon,
the mighty gerund drawing out their gumption,

words were my weapons agin riot shields,
my pen was the point which made them yield,
drawing an officer to my pad in the sky,
to explain misconduct and apologise,
yet still no compensation came my way,
for the cops to cough a new game I'd play,
the Chief let slip his email address,
with that I knew I'd make my arrest,

my words soared like missiles through cyberspace,
e-missive after missive with ineffable pace,
facing a war of verbal attrition,
the Chief had to shift position,
the thin blue line became a curve,
I received the pay-out I deserved,
unlike The Clash I succeeded in what I'd begun,
I Fought The Law and I Won.

The Last Word in Luxury

Also see Nightmare blog

Interactive version

The Last Word Is Dead blog

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I Fought The Law and I Won blog

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