Just to dip my index finger
in your indelible ink
And trace an angel's death-cross
against my door?
Hah, let the black levers
stay unpulled
Till the crack of doom.
Thus did a local poet, U. Loutoo, describe his feelings about last week's elections in Trinidad and Tobago. The key issue in the campaign was whether the islanders should vote at all. Prime Minister Eric Williams, the arrogant and donnish political leader of his country since 1956, urged a big turnout for his People's National Movement. Most opposition leaders and their supporters, like Poet Loutoo,...
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