It is strange how much I try to keep faith
with the worlds of language, news, and politics
when so many weak world leaders remain in power
because they disappoint-as if if they led from the front
they might show others how to lead and be ejected
from their role in a shot. They remind me of my father,
a man who had far more right to ownership
and far more choice in law and custom
than I would ever have, both as a child and adult.
Such that what he mentored me in most was error
hidden and sustained by anonymity, more than I knew.
I don't blame him for not wanting to be parent,
any more than I blame world leaders for leading
their countries astray. The news still interests me
through it I see more clearly how the world is misled.
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