There at the dinner the Cardinal they flanked
Trump on his left side and Clinton his right
The seating arrangement was maybe a prank
With Clinton the right of Trump, rare is that sight
Humor was called for, mild self deprecation
Which Clinton accomplished in keeping and tune
But Trump’s joke: Melania’s plagiarization
It seems he had plagiarized from a cartoon
Trump dug his hole deeper with Clinton attacks
Which prompted the gentry attending the dinner
To boo his pronouncements, the humor they lacked
Clinton’s performance was clearly the winner
But Clinton said something I ponder, as such
That people are judged not by things they have built
But by all of the people their actions have touched
I would add: some things built many lives will have felt
10/22/16
