Synonyms for a political career by Rob Lowe (Lucent Dreaming Issue 8)

Twelve milestones:

1: I have always wished to serve my country
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I wanted to make a pile

2: It is politically motivated slander
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It’s probably true.

3: No comment
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It is true.

4: I have done nothing wrong
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You don’t have enough evidence yet.

5: The accusation is unjustified
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You don’t have enough evidence yet.

6: I will not resign
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I hope to get away with it.

7: But, for the good of the party, I will
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I’ve now been caught out.

8: I would like to spend more time with my family
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Now my spouse has caught me out as well.

9: The public have been misinformed
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My propaganda failed.

10: We must educate public opinion
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Our propaganda must do better.

11: I am grateful for my time in politics
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I have made a pile.

12: He was a consummate politician
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Thank God he’s out of the way of my ambition.

Rob Lowe, of Scots-Canadian, English and Welsh ancestry, now has a small home in North Wales. Having written poems for half a lifetime, he began submitting work to editors in 2017, and has learned a lot about his craft from this process. Recent work has been accepted by Abridged, Seventh Quarry, Plum Tree Tavern, Nine Muses Poetry, The Daily Drunk, and elsewhere in anthologies, print, video-link and online, and, of course, in Lucent Dreaming. Diverse poets have influenced his work, notably Nazim Hikmet, Edith Sodergran, Thomas Hardy and Emily Dickinson. He enjoys gardening.
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