miércoles, 18 de agosto de 2010

Día de la Hispanidad

Día de la Hispanidad (October 12, Barcelona)

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.