domestic construction

by T.P. Wilkinson / October 14th, 2018

Everyone’s
an engineer
and no one’s
a mechanic.
Trains and planes
plugs and pills
to power
and to entertain.
Polls and prols
have never mixed
Poor elections
are forever fixed.
When the engineer
his thinking done
then the mechanic
wields his gun.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, October 14th, 2018 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.