by Janet Leahy
LAS VEGAS (The Borowitz Report)—The casino billionaire and Republican kingmaker Sheldon Adelson met several 2016 G.O.P. candidates available for purchase over the weekend, but decided to buy none of them, Adelson confirmed today. --The New Yorker, March 31, 2014
An escape to Vegas, to bend
the ear
of a rich man, a foot
in the silver door
to dirty money, to hunger
that gnaws
for more, a psalm of himself
chips piled high to buy
someone plastic, the candidate
cannot wear a dark patina
Janet Leahy writes poetry in New Berlin, Wisconsin. A member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, she has two collections of poetry, The Storm, Poems of War, Iraq and Not My Mother's Classroom.
