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| Campaign – a poem by Carol Ann Duffy exclusively for the Guardian | Campaign – a poem by Carol Ann Duffy exclusively for the Guardian |
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| Britain’s poet laureate responds to the general election result in a work written for the Guardian | |
| Carol Ann Duffy | |
| Sat 10 Jun 2017 10.50 BST | |
| Last modified on Wed 20 Sep 2017 10.32 BST | |
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| In which her body was a question-mark | In which her body was a question-mark |
| querying her lies; her mouth a ballot-box that bit the hand that fed. Her eyes? They swivelled for a jackpot win. Her heart was a stolen purse; | querying her lies; her mouth a ballot-box that bit the hand that fed. Her eyes? They swivelled for a jackpot win. Her heart was a stolen purse; |
| her rhetoric an empty vicarage, the windows smashed. | her rhetoric an empty vicarage, the windows smashed. |
| Then her feet grew sharp stilettos, awkward. | Then her feet grew sharp stilettos, awkward. |
| Then she had balls, believe it. | Then she had balls, believe it. |
| When she woke, | When she woke, |
| her nose was bloody, difficult. | her nose was bloody, difficult. |
| The furious young | The furious young |
| ran towards her through the fields of wheat. | ran towards her through the fields of wheat. |
| Carol Ann Duffy | |
| Poet laureate | |
| Poetry | |
| Theresa May | |
| General election 2017 |