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An Unexpected Visitor

By Elton Camp

The crunch of gravel in our drive
Announced a visitor had arrived
The curtain I then pushed aside
The car with amazement eyed

“Oh my, what could be worse?
It’s somebody in a black hearse.”
Wife:  “I see what you do mean,
But I think it’s a big limousine.”

The back door swung open wide
Toward our house a man did stride
His appearance took me aback
For he was most surely a black

A shock that caller just had to give
In the neighborhood where we live
To be fair, people really do try,
But old prejudices are hard to die

Had the man come there to rob?
Or was he looking for some job?
But with his car and fancy clothes,
It’s hard to think he’s one of those

So when I heard him knock,
The door I did warily unlock
Standing just outside the door
There was a man I’d seen before

“Hi, Barack Obama is my name
I guess you wonder why I came.
This is not some senseless trick.
Your house was a random pick.”

“Opinion polls are my undoing.
My popularity misconstruing.
With regular people I try to chat
To speak about this and that.”

I didn’t know just what to say,
But asked him in right away.
We had a visit of about an hour
With that man of great power

And just as soon as he was gone,
We quickly got on the telephone
“You won’t believe who came today
And all the things we heard him say!”

With laughter they all did choke.
They thought it was only a joke
But we both know it is not a lie
The president truly did come by

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