Go for the Gold!

The Winter Olympics have begun in Milan, Italy!

In an Executive Order entitled "Venerating the Great Helmsman and Dear Father of All Americans," Trump has ordered all American gold medal winners to confer their medals upon him (but no silver or bronze medals from the "suckers and losers").

Trump's edict reminded me of Emmett Lee Dickinson's "He'll take it for himself," below on the left.  Dickinson's poem inspired his third cousin Emily to pen her poem "You cannot take itself," below on the right.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

He’ll take it for himself
From any Human soul –
That claim which makes him great
Is just a prize he stole –
Contemptible in Light
That every man behold
He’ll boast the honor as his own
His pinched and pilfered Gold –

By Emily Dickinson:

You cannot take itself
From any Human soul –
That indestructible estate
Enable him to dwell –
Impregnable as Light
That every man behold
But take away as difficult
As undiscovered Gold –