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Book 18 Page 18

 

Unpolished politicians

 

Politicians seem to be at home in parliament house shouting,

while quoting statistics and numbers .

 

But when they start to sing the national anthem,

or try to invent analogies or speak poetically,

it’s then that they show their very ordinariness.

 

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au Created on 4/30/00