26.2.23

A speech of the Mayor, from Act 5 of Geoffrey Hill’s version of BRAND by Henrik Ibsen

Folk here are well content,
so what more could you want?
All right, they’re a bit dim.
So let’s not worry them
with talk of ‘truth’ and ‘light’.
Truth isn’t worth the fright.
Just give them something big
and they’re happy: church, pig-
sty, it doesn’t matter;
the bigger the better.