"Our security depends on regulation

but the police have turned bandits.

They don't obey the rules.

They are swarming

into civic life.

... The security forces have rebelled. The people are the victims of a coup. ...

Who comes here? Let me hold up my lantern. It's only the police ...

... just a few of them as always whistling as they go.

The faithful body public has made a mistake.

... Coming up behind are hundreds of them.

Hundreds too many,

armed to the teeth

for a job that doesn't need doing. Not needed? With all that weaponry?

Here they come, hurtling through the lifestream

trying to pick a fight.

There's no one to fight … but you.

You're the foreign body now."

Paraphrased from Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson, pg 115.

(Ranjeet S. Tate, May 3rd, 2012)