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| Hillary Clinton by DonkeyHotey |
From Ronald
to Donald
politics
sticks
to people
who sweep all
away with their tricks.
The voters
gun toters
scope out Reeps
not Bo-Peeps
while the Dems
with ahems
eye Al Gore–like veeps.
But the winner
a grinner
more clever
than ever
won’t say Trump
on the stump
is a dirtbag—never.
As our prez
she says
she’ll drink in
Abe Lincoln
standing straight
while we state
Here’s to Hillary Clinton!
Spuyten Duyvil will release James Reiss’s debut novel, When Yellow Leaves, in September, and it will publish his second novel, Façade for a Penny Arcade, in 2017. He is the author of six full-length poetry books, including The Breathers, Ten Thousand Good Mornings, and Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems. His work has appeared in such places as The Atlantic, Esquire, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, and Virginia Quarterly Review. As Professor Emeritus of English at Miami University, he is Founding Editor of Miami University Press in Oxford, Ohio. His surname rhymes with “peace.”