A crowd like a pentangle 

or a pentagram

in the square in London

outside the SA embassy

Who was Trafalgar?

No one knows. 

Probably a great general or ships captain

Imperializing left and right

and here we are 

protesting Apartheid

w Rev. Jesse Jackson orating 

and five marches are converging here

Trafalgar Square

And Jessie and I with our luggage and LL Bean jackets

just in from Paris 

via La Havre

and the Cliffs of Dover

and the police in riot gear surge

and the protesters retreat 

Then they surge and the police retreat

Back and forth they go

We took our bags and got out of there