Headline, September 6, 2016:
Washington Post 50-State Poll:
“Texas in Dead Heat”
Just as the deadly heat of summer
Gives a subtle indication
That it will soon be lifted,
A new dead heat descends:
Polls have shifted.
After one or two bearable mornings,
When a walk around the block
No longer wilts and drenches us,
We hear this news: “Dead Heat.”
Only recently we licked the pencil point
And added up the body count
From summer’s deadly heat.
Now we learn it may extend
In a different kind of misery:
Mud-slinging. Phones ringing. Door bells dinging.
After forty years of straight red line dancing,
Will Texas return to a state
Of Western Swinging?
Paz no mas. Viva Bob Wills.