by Earl J. Wilcox
I am elected.
I leave Texas.
I go to DC.
I stay eight years.
I go back to Texas.
The End.
Earl J. Wilcox writes about aging, baseball, literary icons, politics, and southern culture. His work appears in more than two dozen journals; he is a regular contributor to The New Verse News. More of Earl's poetry appears at his blog, Writing by Earl.
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