Monday 5 July 2010

EVENSONG: PETER GABRIEL, BIKO.

September '77, Port Elizabeth weather fine,
it was business as usual, in police room six-one-nine...

2 comments:

mongoose said...

One wonders whether Dave's Peace and Reconciliation Torture Enquiry will catch on to these finer points of irony.

callmeishmael said...

You mean the full and far-reaching cover-up, chaired by some other bent jurist, mr mongoose. Everyone knows, anyway, that when the spooks aren't planting bombs at home they are busy in gay liaisons with the Russians, or, as CallHimDave would say, putting their lives on the line for we useless citizens, far too busy tending to their arses to be torturing wogs, eh? Unless they're pretty ones.