The police shot two dogs yesterday
Corrupt venality
Spivery and skullduggery
Really shameless infamy
To me there are no excuses
The result a shabby mess
To shoot those dogs the way they did
Will they get redress
The judgement was so awful
Criminality
A cudgel might have woken them up
The result illegality
For me it was unlawful
Incompetent, for me
They should exchange a cell
With Julian
Their Chaotic authority.
Watching it one has to ask
Why the delinquency
What they did was wicked
The dogs appealingly
Nefarious and flagrant
It’s as if they lost control
They went there without planning
And no leading role
Policing it was awful
Shooting them up close
It sickened me to see this
It just was bloody gross
And now I hear protests are planned
Outside Scotland Yard
What excuses will they give
The MET to me is scarred
With ugliness and awfulness
Who were these people, why
Go there armed up to the teeth
And then watch those poor dogs die
Rex Tyler is a Poet, Campaigner, former owner of an organic shop of 30 years, and Public Speaker living in Berkhamsted, UK.