Fraiku: Poli Sci

Posted on 2025-01-10 by Bartholomew Barker

He’s the orange clown
distracting while the billionaires
pick your pockets

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
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23 Responses to Fraiku: Poli Sci

  1. DD's avatar DD says:
    2025-01-10 at 20:06

    Why not take Greenland too?

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  2. ivor20's avatar ivor20 says:
    2025-01-10 at 20:59

    There’s a clown in every circus

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  3. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2025-01-11 at 05:12

    I may be mistaken, but should it read ‘while the’ rather than ‘the while’? Otherwise – spot on.

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  4. magickmermaid's avatar magickmermaid says:
    2025-01-11 at 11:00

    True! How does a convicted felon become president???

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  7. DD's avatar DD says:
    2025-01-14 at 17:05

    I was working on an Australia Day poem but this popped into my head instead, Bart.
    ~
    warmer than Greenland
    not ‘distant’ like Canada
    print Oz for sale signs
    ~
    ☮️

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  8. Susi Bocks's avatar Susi Bocks says:
    2025-01-15 at 17:19

    Spot on, Bart!

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