The Death of Baroness Thatcher
after Patricia McGuigan and Alexander Pope
Her hair was a
headmistress dreaming
of again being
allowed to use the cane.
Her ambition was a
brass door knocker
on what was once a
council house.
Her brain was a
conversation about money
Sir Keith Joseph had
with himself.
Her back passage was
Basil Fawlty
complaining about car
strikes to the Major.
The look in her eyes was
a shoot to kill policy
in Northern Ireland.
Her sentimentality
was a spinster’s thimble
in which you could
fit what’s left of the Tory Party
in Scotland,
Liverpool, Manchester,
Leeds, Sheffield,
Newcastle...
Her clenched fist was
a skinhead
in nothing but Union
Jack y-fronts.
She said the word
‘Europe’
like a woman coming
down
from a severe overdose
of Brussels Sprouts.
Her Christmases were
dinner at Chequers
with a recently
deceased sex offender.
Her ‘out’, ‘no’,
‘never’
were striking print
workers
being given the cat
of nine tails.
Her fingers and
thumbs
were ten riot shields
in a row.
Her final nightmare
was the silent, black
eyed ghosts
of Joe Green and
David Jones *
who did nothing but
each offer her
a hand.
KEVIN HIGGINS
* David Gareth Jones, from Wakefield, died
amid violent scenes outside Ollerton colliery in Nottinghamshire on 15 March
1984. On 15 June Joe Green was crushed to death by a lorry while picketing in
Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire.
Kevin Higgins is a poet in Galway Ireland
Kevin Higgins is a poet in Galway Ireland
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