Politics

by Katherine L. Gordon

White guys in their smug sixties

suit jackets barely buttoning

over bulging well-fed

well-beveraged bellies,

dictating to angry-thin street strugglers

how to think, what to expect,

in cruelly perilous times.

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"Politics" is from Katherine L. Gordon's new collection Wing-Wishing: Of Unicorns, Ravens and Wolves (Melinda Cochrane Publications Inc., 2019).

Katherine L. Gordon is a poet, author, publisher, judge and reviewer. Her work has been translated into several languages. She has many books, chapbooks and anthology collections with talented peers whose works inspire her. She promotes poetry as a unifying force around the globe.