Two new podcasts by Helen Pletts

Don’t try to change the course of Cuban history

By sending exploding cigars, an agent
with a pen-syringe, approaching underworld figures
to carry out a killing, placing high explosives
under the speaker’s podium, recruiting

an old classmate to shoot someone dead
in the street in broad daylight, enlisting
a former lover as an assassin
armed with poison pills, buying Caribbean

molluscs with a view to planting explosives
in the largest shell, preparing
a skin disease infected diving suit,
making bacterial poisons

to be placed in a handkerchief or
in a cup of tea or coffee, rigging up
a radio station with noxious gas, using snipers,
blowing up an airliner.