Earth moves
– 30 km per second –
around the Sun,
and the Solar System spirals
at 250 km per second
around the centre of the galaxy,
meaning
Ottawa is millions of kilometres away
from where it was
back in 2006
when the Prime Minister first declared
he would reform the Senate,
and if that’s not progress,
what is?
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
