The Ole Miss campus was giddy.
All the debaters were there.
Outsiders waved signs and screamed.
Insiders sat importantly and waited for the cue
to applaud.

Jim Lehrer asked leading questions,
begged them to talk to each other, but nobody followed.
McCain was alone on stage.
Barack respected the back of John’s head
no matter what he said.

Listening to commentators pundicate, and spinners recite,
I wondered where they’d been.
The debate I saw lulled one into reverence for past leaders.
Many were golfers who inspired this primary voter
to want a mulligan.

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