You know, Gail, I wrote that first line and thought it sounded familiar but didn't know why and dismissed the thought. I knew it wasn't Gilbert, who is always in the back of my mind when I write something, but someone else and now you've solved it. It's Patrick Barrington's "Diplomatic Platypus." It's very serendipitous that the two poems I've subconsciously played off of take jabs at governmental figures.
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