Crooks lay in a weighted state Waiting for the dead assassin While the rust pure powder puffs A shimmering opaque red Papers spread, no one driving We hurled direct ahead The windows dark-green tinted The hearse a taxi instead Snowstorms forecast imminently In areas Dogger, Viking Moray, Forth, and Orkney Keeping cover in denuded scrub The school destroyed raised the club Panic spreading with threat of fire Crowding beneath a layer of foam Refugees intertwined, alone Within the institution walls In pastel blue, clinical white Slashed red lipstick Mercy nurse tonight Seems like dark grey stockings In the raking torchlight With a 4 AM stubble A midnight transvestite Moray, Forth, and Orkney