America's favorite
human rights activist
and culturally-sensitive
ambassador to Ghana
Shirley Temple Black
has died.
In 1975
she said she felt political dialogue
was dominated
by the world's superpowers
that "there weren't
enough countries
talking to the developing countries."
And so
nearly 40 years later
with this still
all-too-true
fact of foreign policy
this poet
nominates Miley Cyrus
for the post
(any country really)
in a symbolic gesture
showing our country
can in fact
let go of the troublesome past
by turning in
one of our own
to the annals of
"Didn't that girl
used to do
something else?"
"How should I know?
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
