Look at me, reduced to chanting
“Ceasefire now” 
with hundreds through Soho Hill 
where Kathryn Dayus’ mum and sister were killed 
in the blitz in Birmingham in 1941.

Look at me, reduced to holding my placard 
saying “Free Palestine”
while sheepish sullen shoppers 
gawp at us as they hurry home 
to Mrs Brown’s Boys and Love Island.

Look at me, reduced to writing a letter 
to my MP McCabe 
asking why on earth he said at our Labour Party meeting 
that the BBC is a Hamas mouthpiece.