<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425799" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pre-electoral Preoccupations 0128</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Electors, ever insincere, <br>provide polite applause, <br>of Mitterand they know no fear, <br>he's still to show them cause.<br>ere long they'll stall, or jeer, not cheer, <br>unless vote reassures.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here socialistic cats appear<br>with communistic claws; <br>they pause, although with purpose clear, <br>steel glows through velvet paws.<br>They're posed to pounce, the vote draws near, <br>no reason here to pause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should they past policies adhere<br>and pass their Program's laws, <br>then much that democrats hold dear<br>could fall behind closed doors.<br>So farewell France, elsewhere I'll steer, <br>towards old Blighty's shores.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(19 March 1977)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425799" data-title="Pre-electoral Preoccupations 0128 de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Electors, ever insincere, provide polite applause, of Mitterand they know no fear, he's still to show them cause. ere long they'll stall, or jeer, not cheer, unless vote reassures. Here socialistic cats appear with communistic claws; they pa..."></div> </div> </div>

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