'With Westminster' Canto Lv From "Yrland Regained: Central Cantos" Poem by Kevin Kiely

With westminster hath no Teig a house of good stone
each block is dirty red brick and terraced
that design might slaughter their family,

with westminster
hath no Teig a peaceful painted paradise on his church wall
"in pietate viridi harpes"
but where gunman receiveth message
and AK47 projects from mural

with westminster
seeth Pearse inspire his heirs and his Cumann na mBan
no truce is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to kill and kill quickly

with westminster, sin against the whole Ysland,
is thy bread impure by those stale flags
is thy bread dry as treaty-paper,
with no Mourne mountain wheat, no strong flour

with westminster the loyalist is thick
with westminster is no clear demarcation
and no Teig can buy land for his dwelling.

Stonecutter is kept busy for memorial monuments
Green baize & tricolour is banned from the loom
WITH WESTMINSTER
wool comes not to EU
Antrim sheep bringeth no gain with BREXIT

WESTMINSTER is a murrain, westminster
sharpens the needle in the torturer's hand
and SAS stoppeth the RA sniper's cunning

Roger Casement came not by westminster
James Connolly came not by westminster
nor Daniel O'Connell; Michael Collins not by westminster
nor was The Proclamation printed with letter ‘O' cut to ‘C'

Came not by westminster Wolfe Tone; came not Robert Emmet,
Came nullity of Free Pres kirks & cut stone signed malo me fecit.
Not by westminster William Molineaux
Not by westminster Constance Markievicz,

Westminster rusteth the loyalist
It rusteth the orange and the bigot
It planteth the thread of their doom
Many learneth to weave green in her pattern;
Stormont hath a canker by westminster; jack-flags as rags unbroidered
Emerald findeth catcalls of hatred

westminster slayeth the child in the car bomb
It stayeth the loyalist's courting
It hath boored Pais-NAZI-ley to breed death, lyeth
smug between the Shankill killer and his bridegroom

CONTRA HIBERNIAM

they first brought Four Square Laundry as cover for MI5
corpses are set to banquet
at behest of westminster.

(Note: lower case spelling of 'Westminster' is deliberate)