From our current affairs editor, Lemuel Stuart III:
Surely by now you've heard about -- and seen -- the "plaid shirt guy," a young man seated behind Donald Trump at his rally for racists in Montana.
The young man turned out to be Tyler Linfesty, and he told his local paper the Billings Gazette that he found out that morning he had been selected to attend the rally and meet the president. He said he and his friends did not have an agenda and had an open mind before attending.
“I didn’t really have a plan,” Linfesty told the Gazette. “I was just going to clap for things I agreed with and not clap for things I didn’t agree with.”
Of course, his face then began to tell the story as he reacted to Trump's bombast, bluster, and bunk.
All of this called to mind a poem by Emmett Lee Dickinson which begins "The Twitch is dear to the Plaid Shirt man" (below on the left). Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "The Ditch is dear to the Drunken man" (below on the right).
| By Emmett Lee Dickinson: The Twitch is dear to the Plaid Shirt man For it can’t be Misread – His every Thought – his Evidence! How telling is his Head In his disheveled Sanity – Around him is this guy – Oblivion bending over him Dishonor leads the way. | By Emily Dickinson: The Ditch is dear to the Drunken man For is it not his Bed – His Advocate – his Edifice? How safe his fallen Head In her disheveled Sanctity – Above him is the sky – Oblivion bending over him And Honor leagues away. |
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