WARNING NOT FOR THE SENSITIVE

PAEDOPHILIA - (Oxymoron}

“May it please the court M’lud,

the prosecution offer Exhibit B

into evidence at this time”

The grey-faced jury is shown

a tiny cellophane packet,

bearing as charnel witness,

a child’s blood-stained shoe.

Haunted eyes stare unseeingly.

The only sound issues from

outside The Old Bailey

where a sudden cloudburst

tilts the scales of justice.