Paul Manafort
the Trump campaign chairman
who was hired to replace manager
Corey Lewandowski
after he resigned
has now quit
for reasons probably completely unrelated
to the discovery
by government investigators
at Manafort's office in Kiev
the capital of Ukraine
a line in the ledger
indicating that Manafort accepted $12.7 million
in undisclosed cash payments
from former President Mr. Yanukovych’s
pro-Russian political party
between 2007 and 2012
and the fact that Donald Trump
will always refuse to be
anything like "managed".
Now who will be left
to man the fort?
(Because it was going so well.)
This poem © 2016 Emily Cooper.
