As we engage fully in the presidential race in the United States I thought I'd dust off and revise a poem from 1996 about a trade unionist from what's now known as Old Labor. The U.K., the United States and other liberal democracies may wish to ponder what the fellow has to say:
THE PAST
English trade
unionist
and hoary
member
of Old
Labor
testifies
as ornithologist:
It’s like
a bird.
It has a right
wing
and a left
wing.
If it loses
a wing,
it has only
one wing,
and
plummets
to the ground.
You CAN’T
fly with one
wing.
-- Indran Amirthanayagam, c) 2008
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2 comments:
I really liked this one. The metre and the mood.
yichaelle
pleased that you like this poem. I found it in a folder of poems that I had wanted to review again in the search for lost treasures. I like the whimsy of it. took a look again at your blog and am enjoying dipping into your poems and photographs.
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