John Smith, American
“Honey, I Think It’s Only Fair To Explain To the Kids That When We’re Talking About Taylor Having Endorsed You For President, We Mean Zachary Taylor,” 1866
Color lithograph
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/// Gen’ral Grant’s wife and kids, (I assume),
join with him in their home’s music room.
The fact that they’re all here
doesn’t make answers clear
about who’s buried now in Grant’s Tomb.
/// The blue uniforms all his sons wore,
and the drum at one’s feet on the floor,
give me cause to suppose
he’d become one of those
drummer boys in our (first) Civil War.
/// Ellen (Nellie) plays left-handed notes
while her Mom, Julia, pampers and dotes
on the youngest child, Jesse,
who is cheerful, but messy.
What is Papa concerned about? Votes!
/// At West Point Grant men learned about guns,
then to Harvard went both elder sons.
They could not fail to notice
their Dad might become POTUS.
He’s elected both times that he runs.
Concerning an endorsement of Ulysses Grant by Zachary Taylor, (who died in 1850):
/// The endorsement that Zachary gave
was, for Grant, an unqualified rave.
An occult Ouija Board
message can’t be ignored;
a pronouncement that transcends the grave!