Yesterday I Met a Monster
Yesterday, I met a monster
disguised as a man ..
He arrived in my clinic on
a British racing green
mobility scooter and was
bang on time too ..
Now I wouldn’t suggest he
was dressed
to impress, but rather to
shock and to
make sure he got noticed ..
However, he would
surely stand out in a crowd,
any crowd that is ..
Yesterday, I met a monster
dressed as a man ..
His clothes smelled of 1970’s
cologne and had
a well-worn sheen to them ..
He made me feel
dirty just by his, being there ..
He wore his
hair tied back beneath an old
bowler hat
and his beard was braided ..
By the way,
he never took that hat off
once and wore
far too many lapel badges
for my liking ..
Yesterday, I met a monster
who spoke like
a very well educated man ..
And who wore
his mighty collection of age
inappropriate
lapel badges, much like an
old soldier might
wear his campaign medals ..
He was clearly
also proud of the electronic
tagging device
strapped to his right ankle,
since he pursed
his lips and smiled when
I referred to it ..
Yesterday, I met a monster
who raped an
eight year old child then
assaulted two
others, all while they were
on holiday
in a tent by the sea with
their parents
apparently close by to them ..
The monster
in question, had only been
released on
supervised licence, a month
previously ..
Having served in excess of
twenty five years
of his life to date, behind bars ..
The monster
subsequently insisted he was
entirely innocent
of all charges, that he had no
recollection of it
and therefore, it must have
been someone else ..
The monster changed his story
several times
throughout that interview ..
He began to insist
it was the voices had told him ..
Then when that
failed to tease out a diagnosis ..
He began to cry
and claimed he was the victim ..
That all three,
of them, two girls and a boy
had egged him on ..
He was so good a liar, he was
almost convincing ..
But by the end of next month,
I am sure he
will go down again for a very
long time indeed ..
Yes, yesterday I met a monster ..
I just wish I had
then enough guts to have killed it ..