Political Hope Poem

is
the building has to offer and
inhospitable weather

hand on the roof i know is no
is
turned to iron has to wink
a tyger's eye

the rest of this foreign see stormy
born     is
and the golden age of drink
taste water     flavor
and the fourth consecutive increase
the roof's monotony

you're back
lightning
you're back
but it was coming anyway






from The Troubles (1993)