Is this politician’s rant
how truth is told slant—
to mesmerize and enchant?
His loquacious cant dazzles.
I’ll only grant, he speaks
superb surprise: truth told scant.
The writer has written secular and sacred verse for many decades. He’s appeared in Third Wednesday, THEMA, Prairie Messenger, The Christian Century, The Merton Seasonal, The Raven’s Perch, Kakalak, and forthcoming, The Orchards Poetry Journal. He is a septuagenarian, happily married, “Poppy” to two granddaughters, and volunteers at a prison camp. He is at petercvenable.wordpress.com