Three reasons to love Teedie Roosevelt

1. For chasing the thieves out in Badlands
who yoinked his boat, hardly thinking
one ruddy, moustached owner, dripping
with water, perspiration
or essence of double-hard madman
would find them, take back his boat
(Thank YOU)
then not even see to their hanging.

2. For being "that damn cowboy" in office.

3. For, eighty-eight years after popping his presidential clogs,
being the man still garlanded with kudos
on Hall of Badassitude, where he sits
in state alongside The Headless Horseman,
John Wayne, Odysseus, The Bride and Samson,
raccoon-hatted, holding his own and then some.