Best Camp Followers Poems

IF ever I had a country : XLVIII - XLIX

			XLVIII

If ever I had even on a rocky wayward moon of a gaseous planet a country
And if ever through successive assassinations of previous party cronies I were the Minister of Labour
I'd instantly expose those in government...

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So there they are, the three wise men, 
(some declared them kings!)

It is not recorded if any women or camp followers
accompanied them, but if they were wise
perhaps that was so.

They were not pragmatists
nor did they follow the science,
long journeys following a star
on a swaying camel’s...

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