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Alistair Findlay

The day he died                                                                                                                          

 

 

he was not working for an international corporation

 

or holding a placard up or  wondering where

 

his next meal was coming from

 

 

he did not meet his death in the arms

 

of an illegal immigrant

 

or marching through the streets juggling

 

 

his death had nothing to do with

 

the National Health Service

 

or the fight against austerity

 

 

he died

 

no kind of subversive

 

not raging, blowing on a whistle

Alistair Findlay is a Scots poet and editor, written four collections, Sex, Death and Football (2003), The Love Songs of John Knox (2006), Dancing Big Eunice (2010), Never Mind the Captions (2011); edited 100 Favourite Football Poems (2007) and co-edited, with Tessa Ransford, Scotia Nova: poems for the early days of a better nation (2015), all for Luath Press, Edinburgh; a cultural history/creative memoir, Shale Voices (1999,2010); contributed to The Robin Hood Book: Verse Versus Austerity (2012) and A Rose Loupt Oot: Poetry & Song Celebrating the UCS Work-In (2011), ed David Betteridge, Smokestack Books.

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Poor Doors
Sheriff Stars
spikes

thistles stretch their prickly arms afar

Black Triangle
bedroom tax
Disrupt and Upset
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spikes
bedroom tax
Sheriff Stars

thistles stretch their prickly arms afar

Black Triangle
Disrupt and Upset

Militant Thistles

prickling the politics of "permanent austerity"

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