Ivanka vs. Akhmatova & the Muse

James Spencer
Poets Unlimited

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All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
as I wait for Nordstrom’s to give me the news.
Whatever I cherish most — blonde, influence, branding–
Weighs more than a muse with a flute in her hand.

See, for me, Secret Service tackles that shiksa
drags her by the veil to my West Wing nook
“Are you the one”, I ask, “whom Daddy heard dictate
The Art of the Deal?” She answers: (expletive deleted).

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