The Candidate ...

In Malton, we met the candidate -

He leaned on his stick - examined us with his veteran's bright knowing eye -

Earlier, we'd seen his comrades -

One of them wore faux farmer's tweed -

Stallholders were shouting in the market -

There was a yellow rickshaw outside a shop selling bric a brac -

Brave leaflets were handed out to passersby -

From the train we'd seen the small villages and flooded fields -

There's a majority of twenty thousand here to overturn the candidate said -


November 2019

Malton
Yorkshire