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Puppeteering and Electioneering

A look back on the 2021 campaign

Skippy

A prime minister in the making

The Shill of the People

Those loudest voices among us

 

When you come to greet me, shyly,

wearing nothing but your love for me

I will come to meet you halfway

like a falcon returning to your wrist.

 

And when you raise your arm,

trembling ever so slightly,

I will alight and let you pull

the velvet shroud over my eyes.

 

Daniel Goodwin is an award-winning  poet and novelist from Ottawa.

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