"We the People
of Strict Specified Criteria"
(who until recently
have happened to overlap
the "democratic-we"
also known as
"enfranchised and empowered Americans")
are good
at holding stubbornly
to the old
and eventually
accepting the new
as a foregone conclusion.
Still too slowly
(for those who wait)
but soon
the unthinkable
will become
the commonplace.
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
