Poems of the Week

Geography Lesson

by Bruce Bennett

“White House Bars Reporter From Event Over A.P.’s Use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’…
[The A.P.’s executive editor said] they were informed by the White House that the news organization

would not be allowed to attend the event if the outlet did not start using ‘Gulf of America,’
the name President Trump decreed… “
The New York Times

It’s not “the Gulf of Mexico.”
To interview the Prez,
you’ve got to toe the party line
and follow what he says.

So if tomorrow he decides
he’s calling it “Trump Bay,”
then that is what it’s going to be,
and that is what you’ll say.