6

The Minister of Compulsion
places texts on the card catalogue
Grips the Bond text and Kubrick

a ballpoint pen shirt pocket
a pair Of scissors!

Cuts a page from Kubrick Barry Lindon's youthful consort
draws on bond
cuts a fine figure
into the page

Never an expression

Police, quiet, respectful
despite scissors,
help him from the library
an embarrassed political Minister
snubbed for unconventional beliefs
and frequent indiscretions,
Minister of a portfolio
few consider glamorous.