to hear them shriek, you'd think
I'd poisoned the dogs and vaulted the ditches,
crossed the lawns in stocking feet and threadbare britches,
forced the door of one of the porches, and lifted
the gift of fire from the burning torches,
then given heat and light to streets and houses,
told the people how to ditch their cuffs and shackles,
armed them with the iron from their wrists and ankles.
Those lords and ladies in their palaces and castles,
they'd have me sniffed out by their beagles,
picked at by their eagles, pinned down, grilled
beneath the sun,
Me, I stick to the shadows, carry a gun.
In this sonnet the  volta  or turn comes at the last line, rather than the thirteenth line as in the traditional Shakespearean sonnet. This gives it added emphasis at the very end. The line is abrupt and spare, as is the opening line. 
 The speaker doesn’t mince words. Using the modern colloquial speech of the first line he states a fact that takes the poem into more serious mode. He is no doubt prepared to kill in the cause of the class struggle.
Those Bastards in Their Mansions