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THE MADRID REVIEW is an international literary magazine, written in English but published in Spain and hoping to connect the Anglophone and Spanish-speaking worlds.  I’m happy to be published in Issue 9, out today, as one of several poets on the theme INTO THE NIGHT.  It’s thought-provoking.  Here is my little piece:

DUSK FALLS ON THE PRIME MINISTER

Dusk fell; he was alone, his aides had left him,

the water jug had grown a film of dust,

the vulgar outside noises couldn’t reach him;

he’d lost his party’s, and the people’s trust.

His mind was like a rat in a metallic

cage, hunting for ways out, as light grew dim.

The men and women he’d betrayed stood smiling

far off, and now the knife awaited him.