REGIME CHANGE

I've been pondering this poem for time. It's part of a long work I have yet to write, hence my shilly-shallying about posting it. To be honest i have only a vague idea of how it ends.
It arose from a line about Fredrick Street, a real street in Widnes- if you care to look it up on Google. The line originally was about rain falling in Fredrick Street and it grew into this:

Regime Change

Just after it's always the same

the false calm of people attempting to be normal

to the soundtrack of glass being swept up,

Then the round up began.

Door to door down Fredrick Street.

Silent, sullen men,

wrists locked in plastic ties,

like so much messy cabling,

pushed onto the road,

pulled aboard lorries.

She was released on a Monday morning

cell opened and told to go.

She'd been picked up at a checkpoint.

Red flagged - the conclusion

of a sequence of random questions,

turned out she had previous.

Contained, she had waited badly,

paced the dimensions of the cage.

In that she was not alone

Mixed up in the first harvest of suspects.

Some stood a chance,

other hadn't a hope in hell.

But she was released

and to begin with she couldn't leave the cell.

I'd be interested in what you make of it. I suppose it's watch this space for updates.
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Until the next time.