Obituary
Writing the death notice
of a man who, in spite of being a politician,
had been his friend, he listed
the compliments and flatteries customary
on these paper tombstones. Naturally,
having a sense of style,
he kept the greatest compliment to the end -
He failed
to reach high office.
From Norman MacCaig’s Collected Poems (new edition, 2005) p 184
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