A pretty blond girl
raised on Air Force bases
and a strong, hard-working man
raised in bars by unkind faces
had a baby squid
who watched with dinner plate eyes
her father digesting
Fox News at dinner
saying "What if we
don't want to cross
the 'Racial Divide'?"
His fathers killed
the pretty blond's fathers
in the streets of New York
because Italian
didn't like Irish
until she was so pretty.
And the squid girl
cut potatoes while
her mouth was closed
wondering at such faith
in this clumsy
president they love so much.