Election

Two old men
Both white and
Exhausted vie for
A job no one in their
Right mind would apply
For if it weren’t for the honor.
I remember a Lincoln story
About a medicine elixir
Salesmen who was
After being tarred
And feathered,
Being ridden
Out of town
On a split
Rail,
Someone
In the crowd
Yelled up at him,
“How do you like it?”
He yelled back that,
“If it weren’t for the
Honor of the thing
I’d just as soon
Have walked.”
Just so with
Elections
For the
USA
President.
In the words
Of Shirley Valentine,
“A lot of pushing and
Shoving and not much
To show for it.” Just
So with most of
American
Voters.
Not much
Auctoritas in
Gravitas and not
Much gravitas
In auctoritas
In elections
These
Days.