"Hillary, And Other Poems"

Found on this Hillary Clinton fansite, on the day of the last primary:

H - Hope for our country and its people.
I - Involvement for a better America.
L - Love for one another.
L - Longing for the America we can be.
A - Ability to overcome adversity.
R - Resolve and resiliency, like no one before her.
Y - Yearning to see her as President, 2009.

Here's what I'd like to see. I'm imagining President Obama leading America irretrievably into war and poverty. Thirty years later, searching the ruins of the Curves for Women for scrap metal, you'll find this acrostic scrawled on a yellowed sheet of paper, tucked behind the drywall. You'll read it, and think of what *could* have been.