what the papers said:

"A long bloodstain & a make-shift shrine  mark the spot where Eamon Mcdevitt, a 24 year old deaf mute had his face blown away by an army marksman during a riot in Strabane last Wednesday. In the gutter there are still fragments of bone & shattered teeth."

REPORT

a deaf mute was shot dead

for not listening to orders

soldiers said he waved

a weapon

the blind crowd didn't see

they disagreed about details

but denied the official version

it happened so quick

when dumb flesh tried to speak

a gun replied