(NaNoWriMo quote: just the words "crisis" and "civil")
Scholars aren't sure Lincoln
despite his brief
unifying eloquence
connecting the sacrifices
of the dead
with the consciences
of the living
would approve of
Obama's presidency.
But they are fairly sure
that the Republicans
who undergird
their imagined
crisis-du-jour
with Lincoln's actual deeds
would be considered
unneeded hindrances
to civil governance
and perhaps
thought a fool by him
beyond all doubt.
This poem © 2013 Emily Cooper.
