Karen Bookguilder is intended to be a collection of poems 60 poems expressly for the Book Guild
by Mike Burr - the themes being dictated by or about its published artisans .
Politician
words a fig
oil my bowels
for a politician i
chiming we are all humanity
and the bells of motherhood
are dandled on my lying lips
a bean that oiled
sucked upon i
for a politician
needs to slip
through chances fickle traps
thoughts of a lavender
my essence bathe
for a politician
must not smell
like mortal men
unclean
utter plums
make vast believe my ego
larger better wealth or fame maybe
impress my image on the lesser earth
shall i