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Moonrise
POEMS
Created: 25th April, 2018

USA

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Poem

Another press conference was held in Houston

last night,

              aired on breakfast news.

It was following a Republican Party fundraiser.

Governor McDowell had eaten a five course meal

followed by Scotch and cigars.

He’d met Miss USA

in her winning sash

and they’d posed for photos.

 

And McDowell, nicely juiced, stood at a podium

and said it was ‘premature’

to offer Ed executive clemency

and he’s be ‘waiting for the court’s decision’

before reviewing the case again.

 

Then he climbed into a chauffeur-driven Cadillac.

I’m guessing he slept pretty soundly

in a Hilton penthouse suite.

I’m guessing he didn’t dream of needles but

maybe he did think about

Miss USA and her pretty pink sash.

 

Ed’s life is in this guy’s hands.

 

 

© Sarah Crossan from Moonrise, Bloomsbury

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