Frances Mac
TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline Announcement
An adaptation of Donald Trump’s remarks made on March 24, 2017
please the man
frankly
words don’t pay
a damn thing here
america for sport
miles to refine
demons to make
things to take
first america
first us
first me
back to our words
the side of know
and plenty
expressed finite
did we not tell it
did we not ask why
Poems by Frances Mac have appeared in Epigraph Magazine, Burnt Pine Magazine, The MacGuffin, and Santa Clara Review. She hails from the Texas Hill Country and currently lives in Washington, DC.
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