Who threw the first stone?
A usually respectable fellow
staggering home from a pub crawl.
Not aiming at that building
but at his pals down the street.
At the sound of breaking glass
they all ran off chortling.
The second and third by a youth
who made a habit of that sort of thing.
Broken window, empty building,
incentive enough to smash two more.
Would have been worse but for
a car turning into the street.
I’m not going to list the next 136,
it’s too depressing. Gangs
descended on the building like
packs of wolves on a wounded stag.
Hardly a pane remained intact
by the time the place was boarded up.