for Hilary Mantel
walking along
the line of doctors and nurses
Margaret Thatcher
whirls her handbag around
like an outboard vagina
Atlas Poetica, 20, January 2015
Note: this is a found tanka based on the Spiegel interview with Hilary Mantel (author of The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher), titled "What’s Happening in Britain at the Moment Is Really Ugly"
