This is not a time for clandestine poets
\nto hurl shoes over Jericho’s crumbling walls.
\nStay calm. The stench of exploding verse
\nwill not deter the invading tanks of Saul.<\/p>\n
You bragged that the lost tribe of Israel
\nwould not be dragged through the eye of a needle.
\nThere would be corrective fury. An iron heel.
\nAn eye for an eyelash. A fire truly biblical.<\/p>\n
So you came in Numbers. The Genesis of hate.
\nJudges and Kings till the Job was complete.
\nHoly revenge against David’s puny catapult.
\nDaniel dismembered by the lion’s savage maul.<\/p>\n
When you heard the words \u2018suffer little children’
\ndid you think it was one of the Ten Commandments?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The End Of The Affair<\/strong><\/p>\n After the servants and wine<\/p>\n after the chains of public office Guilt is a dish best served cold. When an old Premier strolls off It would be ingratitude, my dear, <\/p>\n You bragged that the lost tribe of Israel Holy revenge against David’s puny catapult. By Kevin Williamson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nafter the blood sacrifice of war
\n \t \t the book tour.<\/p>\n
\nTake a bow. Smile a glacial smile
\nthat would embarrass a crocodile
\n \t \t snap shut.<\/p>\n
\ninto a scarlet sunrise the lure of
\nconsultancy gold a tinkle in his ears
\n \t \t look away.<\/p>\n
\n \t \t to do otherwise.<\/p>\n![\"kevin_williamson_in_dubrovnik\"](\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kevin_williamson_in_dubrovnik.jpg\")
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong>
\nKevin Williamson<\/strong> is the author of the poetry collection In A Room Darkened<\/em><\/a> (Two Ravens Press<\/a>), co-editor of the Bella Caledonia<\/a> project, and was the founder of Rebel Inc<\/strong>. He is currently putting the finishing touches to a new poetry collection 374 Leith Walk <\/em>and is currently rehearsing his one-man Robert Burns show A Radical Voice In Dangerous Times<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"kevin_williamson_in_dubrovnik1\"](\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/kevin_williamson_in_dubrovnik1-150x150.jpg\")
This is not a time for clandestine poets
\nto hurl shoes over Jericho’s crumbling walls.
\nStay calm. The stench of exploding verse
\nwill not deter the invading tanks of Saul.<\/p>\n
\nwould not be dragged through the eye of a needle.
\nThere would be corrective fury. An iron heel.
\nAn eye for an eyelash. A fire truly biblical…<\/p>\n
\nDaniel dismembered by the lion’s savage maul…<\/p>\n