Marilyn Longstaff

Marilyn Longstaff

Marilyn Longstaff lives in Darlington and is a member of the women’s writing collective Vane Women www.vanewomen.co.uk.

What Three Words
Thursday, 07 November 2024 15:30

What Three Words

Published in Poetry

What Three Words

by Marilyn Longstaff

A clever app pinpointing a precise location,
useful, simple, when it works: if you understand,
if there’s a decent signal. what3words
saw we oldies lost in deepest Suffolk. Had to rely
on chancing upon a passer-by
who knew where we were going.

What damage can be done by just three words?
Slogans that wind up popular imagination:
Get Brexit Done, Lock Her Up – And so
the convicted felon and his acolytes
who spread their lies on Social Media
threaten us all. We need three words. Let’s

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