Who: Do: May Keep It: Tanka

Democracy’s…(Republic)

Public domain, (cc-zero image retrieved via Wikimedia Commons), 5¢ postage stamp by Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Designed by Victor S. McCloskey, Jr., Collection: U.S. Postal Service; National Postal Museum Description: Register & Vote 5-cent 1964 issue U.S. stamp

[Anarchy mayn’t win

Nor fascist dictatorship.]

They who do, may—tick

Ballots, (lots* lick, stick)—keep it,

*Democracy’s…(Republic).