Lizz Murphy - Poem 302: US Presidential Candidate Kit

US PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE KIT

One pedestal

One mass audience

One throwaway line

(let’s make our country great again)

One grand gesture

(both hands held high)

One bible

(for swearing on)

One oval office

Lizz Murphy - Poem 186: Fifty-fifty (found poem)

FIFTY-FIFTY

fewer than one in five voters think

a looming dead threatens to erode

— random found text from SMH July 1, 2016

P.S. Cottier #3 Canberra walk

Canberra walk

A gaggle of poets
at the shops
A white stripped team
of cockatoos
Gobbles of acorns
inside my Staffie
Ankles of walks
Angles of paths
Clouds arguing
with the blue —
elected by the wind.

P.S. Cottier