Northern Ireland is such a peaceful place.
Where once we exported strife all year round,
a lot of it centred in Belfast, now the locals
are secure behind so-called peace walls.
Both sides now save their ire for the police
more than their neighbour, and their fury
is scheduled to be ritually vented every July,
with their MLA leading the fray.
But still, I am disturbed by how demilitarisation
has affected the employment market.
With the army shrinking, the police becoming
relatively civil, and high youth unemployment
then private security has had to take up the slack
of young men looking to find that place that meets
their alpha male pretensions.
It could be worse- they could be seeking careers
in the therapy industry.
How many, immature in their claim to superiority
would recognise in their clients and other sufferers
the condition known as Munchausens-by-proxy ?
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