President

 

Epiglottis

George Washington got his

stuck in one of history’s what-ifs

 

Undetermined

Jimmy Carter turned the page

or was it simply old age

 

Processes

by which American presidents

met pressured ends

 

Assassination

dismissed by shotgun

how the West was won

 

Expletive

one after another or in noxious groups

foul mouths on permanent loops

 

Cardiac

not ones to wear their heart-on-sleeve

exited without a by-your-leave

 

Library

calm where scholars are wont to go

with the eternal, well what do you know?

 

Dementia

their gold rhetoric turned to garble

verbal cues for losing of marbles

 

Vanity

gone as the glowing face breaks up

from suffocating make-up

 

Airliner

filled with Qatari gilding

flying into a building

 

Pedestal

toppled having ignored all portents

died of unimportance

 

Ghostwriting

or at the least on the shelf

not feeling too good myself