Impeach

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1.

Sing into the storm, "Impeach,
How sweet the sound. O, fruit
of our labor, free stone, tender."

2.

The root: to fetter, hinder, clap
on the irons, hold your horses: empêcher,
Old French with a Wild West feel.

3.

The spelling: epic ice cap cheap
each chip a chime a hem a map
ah me chimp champ I ache pace aim

4.

What charter keeps these
lawless offices intact, the men, immune:
lucre, sugar, mortar, torpor, zealotry...

5.

Politics is the art of the possible.
Good hands in good graces
fiddle by the conflagration.

6.

Fleeced by spin, roving strands
twist into yarns. Our fingers braid
their daily safety net: complicity.