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The Image Consultants
Worked their magic
Transforming the Dowdy
Into Contemporary
From nondescript corduroy skirts to
Richard Tyler sleek suits.
Hired gun cognoscenti
Wrote your speeches,
Videoed you tossing salads
To assure us you are
Every Woman
And seduce our votes.
You tell us
You are
Just Like Us
Despite the glaring evidence
To the contrary.
You have never had to choose Welfare over Work
Because you couldn't afford Day-Care.
You don't live with the unrelenting angst of being
A Working Mother
Bone-weary from
The Struggle
To be All Things
To All People.
You don't sit in despair
Reviewing your checkbook
Heavy with the realization
There are more bills than money.
You have never been
Like Us
Hillary
And you will never be.
The Stand-By-Your-Man
Wronged Wife
Mantle
Has worked so very well for you.
I wonder
Is that what you learned at your fathers' knee ?
Instead of fairy tales about flying ponies and princesses
Was it platforms , agendas
and Quid Pro Quo
He taught you ?
At what point exactly
Did your ambition
Usurp
Your integrity ?
You sell us
This Hillary who
Stands on her own
But the reality of the ride
On your husbands' coattails
Your phoenix rising from his ashes
Will never fade.
Reminiscent of the Doctors' wife
Who gives medical advice
You have meticulously
Methodically plotted
A career
You have no wherewithal
To.
If your life has entitled you to be
A Senator
Then most of the women I know
Should be Emperors.
On the days I do not detest you for being
Antithetical to
All that Women have worked for,
I pity you , Hillary.
Nothing you have is
Really Yours.
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