FIRST LINE OF A LIMERICK FOLLOWED BY FOUR LINES OF SILENCE

by J.R. Solonche

There once was a Willard Mitt Romney
(silence)
(silence)
(silence)
(silence).

J.R. Solonche is co-author (with wife Joan Siegel) of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). His poems have appeared in many magazines, journals, and anthologies since the 1970s. He teaches at SUNY Orange in Middletown, New York.