found poetry

Years ago, when Michael Ignatieff was two months removed from having been elected as an MP and was contemplating his first leadership run he had a quote appear in the papers that was as poetic as it was bizarre. I didn’t have a blog at the time so Paul Wells at Maclean’s was kind enough to post it (and now the link is, forever, lost.) But it went like this:

can we herd these cats?

can we herd these cats
the question does occur

oh sure

these are great cats
these are the best cats there are

Iggy’s back at in this interview in the Daily Gleaner.

as soon as i left ottawa

as soon as i left ottawa
i could feel the stress
leaving me with every
mile

i can’t
walk through the airport
go to the supermarket
or stop to get
a bottle of wine

without people saying
“what is going on?”

this
is a special event
in canadian history

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