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Friday, August 11, 2017

CLINTONATIONS

by Edmund Conti





When you argue with the GOP
Be sure to bring your best artillery.
Their argument you won’t foresee.
It goes like this:  “But Hillary.”

Your facts can sting like a bumblebee,
Dance and flit like a fritillary.
They’ll just respond with calm and glee,
“But Hillary.”

You can argue till your face is blue,
Till you get inane and sillary.
Your logic will be turned on you—
“But Hillary.”


Edmund Conti has not been published in The New Yorker nor has he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry but …