They have the nerve to call it
bloody fighting
their insensibility
is beyond the pale
they are in a global stupor
a numbness overtakes them
their nonchalance
and artlessness does fail
cold hearted just unconscious
unsmitten apathetic
they use the darkest killing method to
be their entertainment
and for the whole family
a day out for the kids
its what they do
some sick exhilaration
the pathos of it all
its a sort of intoxication
its not a wake up call
no they dwell on torture
on the ugliness and rage
as the victim dies in agony
thats so far off the page
the suffering is toxic
the anguish it is there
the torture goes beyond the clouds
the grief is everywhere
the darkest tribulation
the hopelessness we feel
they laugh and eat their ice creams
all that does appeal
writhing, bleeding harrowed
tormented in great pain
pitiable and wretched
the swords go in again
heart broken really mortified
chagrined by what we see
but the Spanish see some awful joy
and cultural rhapsody
here we have an innocent
undergoing what
can only be described as hell
each flinch and they cheer a lot
each squirm each smart
each tearful melody
each onerous tear
and the fucking crowd
including grandma
you can hear them roar from here
its completely disagreeable
an unsavoury display
of torture that is vile and sick
why has this soul to pay
invidious its mortifying
just to watch it we
must give respect to innocence
and beg it be let free
Spain must see the irony
of its own bloody name
its not without coincidence
and little it can gain
from carrying on this evil
this pathetic shocking play
that rankles and embitters
so many now today
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.