17 JULY BANALITY OF IMMORALITY: WHERE DID SHAMIMA GET IT FROM?

THE COURT OF APPEAL HAS GRANTED SHAMIMA BEGUM LEAVE NOT TO REMAIN INDEFINITELY DETAINED IN A REFUGEE CAMP IN NORTHERN SYRIA   

KEEN TO RETURN TO LONDON  IT’S 5 YEARS SINCE A 15-YR-OLD SHAMIMA SET OFF TO JOIN ISIS    

BUT DID SHE EVER REALLY LEAVE BETHNAL GREEN? 

WHATEVER WAS THERE IN FRONT OF HER   TERRIBLE STUFF SHE’S NEVER CONFRONTED  

THE FRAME THAT GAVE SHAPE TO IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MUCH THE SAME   

AS BEFORE     

SO THE SEVERED HEADS OF HUMAN BEINGS  

WERE PROCESSED PERHAPS IN TERMS SHE ALREADY KNEW 

ASSEMBLING IN SHAMIMA’S EYES  AS CUTS OF HALAL MEAT 

RESEMBLING THE HAJI BABA COUNTER IN STEPNEY GREEN’S ASDA   

SAME COLOUR SCHEME OF CLARET+ PINK  

THIS IS CORRELATION AT MOST NOT CAUSALITY  BUT MAYBE MORE THAN CASUAL LIKENESS   

IF BANALITY’S THE SOURCE OF HER IMMORALITY  

WHERE EXACTLY WAS HER IMAGINATION SET TO FAIL?

WAS IT IN SYRIA OR IN BETHNAL GREEN?

WISHING WE HAD A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF ALIENATION WHILE CONDEMNING IT NONE THE LESS    
YOURS TRULY    
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