I like her poem
in the shape of Africa
   ... and bleeding into the news
      from Boer guns

I'm sure Horatio Alger
could never shape poem so well... But

     more to the point:
I did not hear her sing at the inauguration
but it appears
     that William Jefferson
was holding the cage
whilst she did so

and still holds it
in the middle of Aprial
when she tells Bryant Gumbel
that she is more for Clinton
than ever
now that she joins him
in abusing, oppressing
and postponing fairness
     for the Haitians

She shows us what it means
to come up from nothing
to win a diversified
     Horatio Alger prize
... telling us about it
on Henry Kissinger's NBC

Perhaps she never had the pacifism
to cut down the Commander-in-Chief
and embrace Anne R. Key
     like a sister...

She puts on politics
the way Nixon wore make-up

And when you do you lines
subversive
to Anglo-AmeriCWASP-JewIsh Ruling ClAss
do think
     what they can do

        for Palestinians