A name (such as that of President-Elect)

As the eyes open, and even as the full nation

wakens at last to

the President-Elect!

still a barking teacher or frail spider in air

can signify him--

for a name's something, possibly him, isn't it?

The name

is like the whipping-tail of real strong tides

on which to rise

(or not) that'd like him to die but will not today.

To associate

a garish, thrusting chin with a famous face

largely picked

by families, and their enemies and kin and

then some patriots--

well, it's all that there is. A name can be any tree, too,

or its fruit, or the

spongy white-belly of bark & underside--

it's not just optics

So it's him and he won't (as some think) pollute

anything with just a

resemblance to him or to any lion's ginger mane

or the soft-pawed bear,

will he?