Rattled

 Rattled

The migrating part in that hair rattles me.

I swear it’s higher than it was and keep close 

watch on the weird wisps he combs over 

to cover what Ivanka termed scalp surgery. 

I’m fairly sure the ducktail strands of side 

and back are not as long as they were. 

Does it take less adhesive now, to batten 

it all down?  Less Executive Time to endure 

the shouted press questions about immigrant 

children in cages?  He boards for Mar-a-Lago,

holds the handrail, hurries up those steps,

knowing how absurd he’ll look if the full wind

fans out all the hair that’s left.  It’s that reality,

not any legality, that rattles him the most.

                                    —Sef, 6/17/18, revised 4/16/‘25