the arrest

thump… thump… thump…
army marching
wrr… wrr… wrr…
‘copters hovering
“innocent! innocent! innocent!”
people chanting

sounds of unrest
at polk street
a man of power
now under arrest!

truncheons blow
as bottles flew
metal against fists?
not hundreds
but thousands
in uniform
to escort a man

an overkill?
ahh…!
the man has thousands
shielding the grounds, too
vowed to avert
the arrest
of a man
charged with plunder…!