Storm
clouds and Skins gather to reminisce nastiness on Jews’ Hill
As
the unhappy tourist, diverted due to demo
Brollies
up and escalates down to
the
Gran Palau Nacional:
Cumulus
castellanus and gleaming glass picture frame
Normally
open for public contemplation of Christ’s romantic
Neo-gothic
flagellation and gilded crucifix
But
now besieged by black flag boys looking for bald heads to bash in
As
beneath backshear anvil they burn placards of the king
Expecting
drama, flooding, manhole covers tossed like tiddlywinks
on
violent geyzers, fountains of emotional seething
Tourist
is disappointed. Gets only spitting, viscid droplets
Falling
on smouldering bin full of failed firelighters
A
fistful of sighs scattered in the wet and trodden underfoot
Nowt
to write home about. Not even worth a postcard.
Note:
Dia de la hispanidad is a day when the local nazis get together to
commemorate Franco, they do this near the mentioned National Art
Gallery and are inevitably met with some form of resistance.
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