We all heard Richard Blanco’s poem for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration, but have you heard Paul Muldoon’s?
“First off, hearty congratulations
on having the backing of the nation
over Romney. It looks like ‘Mitt’ is short
for intermittent, or something of that sort.
Second, 'inauguration’ is a word
that conjures up 'divination by birds,’
Romans who tried to break the code
of what hens’ entrails might forebode.
As for the forecast I deliver?
Don’t be chicken-hearted! Don’t be chicken-livered!
I must admit I’m hesitant
to bend the ear of a President
for whom I have so much more time
than almost any of the dime-
a-dozen politicians
we track by their shifting positions
as targets may be tracked by drones…”
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Here’s mine: Inaugural Poem Pay tribute to the trespassers all around you, to the platoons all surviving the wisdom....
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