The Candidate

    
     A putative man of destiny
            He shakes every hand on the block.
     He desires to debate the issues
            And so it comes as no shock,
     That he's ready to fight inflation
            By dipping down into the crock,
     To pay for his TV effusions
            And put his whole party in hock.


     Notes: Poems on Trees, State of Maine Writer's Conference, 1980.