The lobbying group
Women On 20s
is campaigning for Harriet Tubman
to appear on the twenty-dollar bill.
Not merely someone
who routed hundreds of people
out of legal captivity
during the Civil War
she was a scout
a cook
a nurse and a spy.
Other than the "politically correct"
line of reasoning
that present occupier
of the bill
Andrew Jackson
was kind of a big meanie
given that one of her nicknames
was "Minty"
(short for her birth name Araminta)
one would get to call
a wallet full of twenties
"Minty Fresh".
This poem © 2015 Emily Cooper.
