Dear President Trump
as insensitive as it was
for Mitt Romney
to offer a $10,000 bet
to Governor Rick Perry
(now your Energy Secretary
and happy to be so
once he knew the department
had to do with nukes)
at the 12th Republican debate
in Des Moines
back in 2011
at least Romney
had the $10,000 to spend
were he wrong about Perry's
prior support of health care mandates.
You want an IQ test
but we know
you would not do very well
because the way you responded
to Rex Tillerson
calling you a moron
or more accurately
a "fucking moron"
was not to respond
by doing something smart
(or at least the presidential equivalent
of coloring inside the lines
while your staff
closely supervises the crayon)
but to challenge him
to a numbers game
when we know
what you like to do with numbers
particularly small ones
that apply to you
like crowd sizes
and approval ratings.
This poem © 2017 Emily Cooper.
