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The Canvassers (Free verse) by Nicholas Jones

By streets where people live in council sprawl The doors go on forever and so did we, We argued out our case in public halls: 'We must convince the people to be free!' We thought of metaphysical concrete dreams And hoped for days when solid things would die We went out to the wilderness, it seemed - And knew the only option was to lie: We had to propogate a sense of hope And demonstrate to what it might just lead Our ideology is not a joke But our campaign has many, varied needs: Our opponents spend their millions to buy trust, While all that we can say is 'Vote For Us'.

Nicholas Jones 26-Dec-02/1:42 PM
Thank you for reading my poem on Boxing Day. I hope you had a very merry Christmas. As regards hope, it's not really my thing. The poem is about the attempt to fabricate hope, and the failure to do so, and so it's not really a hopeful poem at all. It's all very political. The line 'our ideology is not a joke' always seemed very clumsy to me (it's hard to read with the correct rhythm) but absolutely vital - this is about people who believe in what they do, but realise it's very, very hard.




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