If it smells like a rose …

If it smells like a rose …

It probably is

If it smells so.

Probably not

When you so know.

How so

With an institution?

Something as basic

As the American Constitution.

When a certain Article

Legitimates the manner

Of election,

Only one wins the banner.

An Amendment, First,

Announced freedoms

Institutionally allocated,

Created necessary legislative tediums.

When dissatisfied with

The banner bearer,

And institutional respect

Identifies no error,

Unhappy, some press

For executive removal and

Joined by legislative losers left,

Wax reproval.

Those left out

Lost.

Only left now with fire,

We teeter on chaos.

With ne’er a scintilla

Of deep inspection,

A thousand baseless fits

Form insurrection.

What then smells

Like a rose?

The Constitution

We chose!