by Anne G. Davies
The media seem to be all agog
At Michelle’s lack of civility
In ignoring a thousand years
Of royal untouchability.
The Queen, always unflappable,
Seemed to take the matter in stride
She didn’t flinch from the common touch
Upon her imperial hide.
Rather than an expression
Of democratic vulgarity
I suspect she saw it
As female solidarity.
Anne G. Davies is a fund-raising writer by profession and a writer and versifier by avocation. Her work has been published in local and regional papers. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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