Diane Kerr
On the Occasion of Roy Moore’s Defeat
Been waiting, Roy, been waiting.
Been waiting sixty-two years
for your comeuppance, small man,
your annulment null & voidance
little Roy, your rejection election
defeat, as in Old French desfait
“undone” as in now you’ve done
become gone
for doing those little girls, Roy
the young stuff, you liked
that fourteen-year-old one, huh?
You would’ve liked me too
me too me too me too me too.
Just like you, he had a horse, Roy,
a stallion bigger than your
pinto, Roy, bigger than yours,
way, way bigger than yours.
Diane Kerr is the author of Butterfly (Cherry Grove Collections, 2014) and One (Parallel Press, 2007). Her poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Pearl, Poetry East, Southern Indiana Review, The Diagram, and Zone 3, among others. She holds a MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and has received fellowships from the RopeWalk Writers Retreat (a program of University of Southern Indiana) and the Hedgebrook Writers in Residence Program. She has taught writing at the University of Pittsburgh and mentors writers through the Madwomen in the Attic Workshops at Carlow University in Pittsburgh.
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