Armagh - Au Pairs

We don’t torture, we’re a civilized nation

We’re avoiding any confontation

We don’t torture, we don’t torture

American hostages

in Iran

Heard daily on the news

forget about Vietnam

You can ignore the 32

There are 32 women in Armagh jail

political prisoners here at home

the British state’s got nothing to lose

It’s a subject better left alone —

We don’t torture

we’re a civilized nation

We’re avoiding

any confontation

We don’t torture

Alleged crimes withheld information

She gets no sanitation

dries her shit on her cell wall

feeling cold and sick

She gets a couple of valium

Now she’s relaxed for the next interrogation

naked spreadeagled on her back

it’s a better position for internal examination

it’s a better position for giving information

An armed guard squad she gets a beating

bleeding and wounded she’s stopped eating

has a baby gets nothing for pain they came and took

her baby away