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Hillary Clinton greets a
supporter following her address at the 18th Annual David N. Dinkins
Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University in New York: photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters via the Guardian, 29 April 2015
Because her hair looked cool
Because some of the best alien minds are watching developments closely
Because she is the traditional Daisy poised fragile before the masculine mills
Of production, yet wearing out six black pants suits
To bring us to acculturation and consequence
Because the Nasdaq is plunging and there is a mandate for change
Sweeping through the gentle bacteria that make their home in her tireless campaign shoes
Because the worried market takes comfort in knowing what it must consume
Because choosing is not an issue except to the terrified cartoon eyeballs
In the take-out carton, wondering whose turn is first
Because some of the best alien minds consider "us" the shrill-voiced uncertainty factor
That threatens to bring the whole cosmic chorus to its whimpering knees
Because Utopia is the island in time that forgot itself as it lifted its utensil
At the altar of its great consuming goddess No Memory, with her sadclown smile strained
Because her lofty position at the social fulcrum which is the mercy seat
Takes a terrific toll on black pants suit bottoms
Because some of the best alien minds are surveying developments in numb disbelief
Because 65% of the wood lice aren't losing any sleep at all
Because retreat in the face of even greater problems,
While not a bad idea, won't solve anything
Because acceptance and consumption are just what the market needs
To shake it out of its trance-like belief in what it thinks alien minds are saying
Because acceptance means acculturation to the masculine mills
Because happiness is merely their invention anyway, because Dame Pleasure is wearied
Of Earth, has taken to the air, faded, fluttered down in a still, snow-
Like inwardness to spill, scatter and be raked up with all the sibyl's other fallen leaves
In this enchanted-recount self-enclosure, like a small-town autumn
Where the commoners lie down nightly with what they have made
Happen, amid the bedded reeds of the vigilant event horizon
Because in this collapse its truths are received
By their souls, because of what this means to the odd weightlessness they feel
Because they have no way to grace their laurels
Beyond filling up the best alien minds, intent upon those peerless screens,
With the black pants suits of our resident historian
Who's just keeping a chair among the blond clouds warm for them.
November 2000
Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York: photo by U.S. Senate, 2000
Hard day of diplomacy ... Benjamin Netanyahu and Hillary Clinton during a news conference in Jerusalem on Saturday: photo by Rina Castelnuovo / AP via Sydney Morning Herald, 2 November 2009
In this handout photo provided by the GPO, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on
July 16, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel: photographer unknown via Zimbio, July 2014
"Hil[l]ary
Clinton does a fine impersonation of Tony Blair"[Hillary Clinton with
Benjamin Netanyahu, New York, 27 September 2012]: photo by AP, 27 September 2012 via Tony Gorman on twitter, 11 August 2014
Newly appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with
President-elect Barack Obama in Chicago, 1 December 2008: photo by Anne
Ryan/Sipa Press, 1 December 2008
Hillary
Clinton kissing Suha Arafat: photo by Reuters, 11 November 1999
Hillary Clinton and Shimon Peres in Jerusalem today: photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP, 3 March 2009
United
States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu speak before a meeting at the Regency hotel,
Thursday, September 27, 2012 in New York: photo by John Mnichillo / AP, 27 September 2012
White House War Room during operation to assassinate Osama bin Laden: photo by U.S. Government 2 May 2011
Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in 2005. After
awkward episodes as first lady, she proved to be Israel’s friend as
senator: photo by Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times, 1 January 2009
Hillary Clinton opened a day of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations with a pep talk [from L, Benjamin Netanyahu, Clinton, Mahmoud Abbas]: photo by AP, via Politico, 2 September 2010
Israeli President Shimon Peres (R) and US Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton speak after a joint press conference on July 16,
2012 in Jerusalem, Israel. Clinton is in Israel to discuss diplomacy
with Iran, Syria and Egypt in addition to peace talks regarding the
Middle East: photo by Lior Mizrahi via Zimbio, 16 July 2012
In this handout provided by U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu (R) on November 21, 2012 in Jerusalem: photographer unknown via Zimbio, July 2014
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meeting at a peace
summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on September 14, 2010: photo by AP, 14 September 2010
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama: photo by via Liberty Voice. 14 January 2014
Hillary Clinton: photo by AP via The New Yorker, 11 August 2014
