that GOP tent
has no room
for a Lincoln Republican
or Whittier

or even this descendant of Missouri
and Kentucky slaveholders
set free

so this bird flies straight Democrat

~*~

or this descendant
of North Carolina
abolitionists

fighting re-enslavement

under the Greedy Offal Pachyderm

“if I kick at that / I’d kick to be shot”

to remain a yeoman

~*~

 see how the CLOWN PARTY
under that adulterer busy with accusations
left the back door open for terror
to move freely