The Bardess of the Beltway Crafts a New Pearl of Poesy.

A new direction for our Vice President.

This time, for the first time, our Vice President departs from the relatively free and easy form of free verse and tries her hand at the tight and disciplined strictures of pentameter (sort of, if you kinda squint your eyes). In your humble correspondent Bickerstaff’s opinion, she succeeds magnificently.

Note to readers: Your Tatler has taken the liberty of making a tiny insertion for scansion’s sake [bracketed] at the close of Ms Harris’s noble sestet. He prays it will it will not detract from it.

While we send our prayers, and our love,

We also, with each day, renew our com-

Mitment to the urgency of now

And the ability that we have collectively,

All of us in it together, to

Do something about it [la-di-da].