Living in now-peaceable Northern Ireland,
where the guns that remain are now well hidden,
but the anger and division behind them stalls politics
every so often The Belfast Press have a headline
like 'IRA Terrorist Killed By SAS and MI5',
About a a historic death that went unexplained
when writing 'IRA terrorist' was a tautology,
one circular phrase among many in the mess
where only police reform could reveal the truth.
It still takes decades to interrogate past decisions
to confirm what the dogs on the street told each other
when no human was listening: that deep within the state
the public knew about, there was another state, inside that
and inside that another and so on, until at the core
there was an agent provocateur 'security state'
who to find out who was the real 'enemy within',
beside itself, had keep the whole war going....
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