Opinion

Politics and manifestos

Letter to the Editor|Published

David Kapp, Belthorn Estate

People don't eat (manifestos)

People don't eat

manifestos (and the like)

says a voice-note

on a midday radio show

(its just a radio show

that could be anywhere

your country or mine

if you and I do indeed

have a country)

manifestos and manifesto-ing

manifesto-ing and manifestos

is everyone showboating

up a street-lit pole

(an injury to one

is an injury to all)

People don't eat

manifestos whatever

their nutritional value

junk food or junk status

People don't eat

manifestos whatever

their and their offsprings'

literacy and numeracy levels

despite manifestos

in spite of manifestos

even because of manifestos

and the promises up your

street-lit pole or otherwise

People don't eat

manifestos

People don't eat

People don't

People