How they ever came to utter
The words…..
‘No I can draw faster’
(referring to their service revolvers)
To me remains an inexplicable aberrancy.
No matter, rounds were removed-
Click… click…. Click…click
a deafening detonation
Click… click… click…
another deafening detonation.
In that canteen in Castlereagh
A man fell against a wall and
Slid down leaving a red bloody smear.
His colleagues at a table playing cards
Grabbed the kitty and scarpered.
In that security sanger in Newry
They found them sitting still,
One paralysed with fear,
The other by the bullet that
Entered through his chin
And lodged in the back of his brain.