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Taken In

Taken In

15 April 2025 /Posted byKevin Patrick McCann
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by Kevin Patrick McCann

Selected for chanting
On a demonstration
He’s cuffed and bundled
Into a police van,
Unloaded at the station
Then it’s

“Full name Grandad!”

“Spell that!”

“Identification!”

The old man nods
Then baring his arm
Displays a line
Of tattooed numbers:
“This do?” he says.

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Kevin Patrick McCann has published eight collections of poems for adults, one for children (Diary of a Shapeshifter, Beul Aithris), a book of ghost stories (It’s Gone Dark, The Otherside Books), Teach Yourself Self-Publishing (Hodder) co-written with the playwright Tom Green, and Ov (Beul Aithris Publications) a fantasy novel for children. His recent book The Haunting (Deleted Scenes), published by Culture Matters, is available in the Books section.

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