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Friday, November 13, 2020

LAME-DUCK LIMERICK

by Patricia Mosco Holloway







A plan to remove the stout lout:
We let him rage on, threaten, pout.
     Still valid, our tally.
     Get him to a rally.
Then all we need do?  "Lock Him OUT!" 


Patricia Mosco Holloway is a writing teacher in Denver, Colorado. She has poems published in The New Verse News, Rattle, The Ekphrastic Review, and Silver Edge.