Paul Taylor - Much Better (Lines taken from the Morning Star, January 17 2012)

a Romanian medical official
phrasemongering about a new form of capitalism
gave a perfect demonstration of
the Stanislavsky system of
comfortable truths
and worsening conditions

it was not all doom and gloom

campaigners welcomed the
shame-based approach to
the clarinet and the alto sax

slogging through the rice paddies
would be much better
than stoking the fires of conflict

it is not perfect.

Paul Taylor is a poet and professional musician, and is the inventor and sole purveyor of trombone poetry. This poem is a foundling and is formed of lines taken from the Morning Star on January 17 this year.

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