Be a woman.
Do your job
as acting attorney general
and tell him
that his national security adviser
has lied to the vice president
about his Russian contacts
and is vulnerable to blackmail.
Get fired.
After getting fired
keep your cool
in a hearing
and armed with information
and poise and patience
revealing information
that could lead to the realization
that he did one thing
or a few things
or many things
which are illegal
and thereby
irk your Twitter-happy
thin-skinned
weak-willed
compulsive liar of a former boss
into tweeting
the witness-intimidating
"Ask Sally Yates,
under oath, if she knows
how classified information
got into the newspapers soon
after she explained it
to W.H. Counsel".
Then after all of that
in serving Trump
and his dishonorable administration
you will have honorably preserved
not only your dignity
through it all
but American democracy.
This poem © 2017 Emily Cooper.
