loyal to her people

a candidate wed to the status quo
hopes it's enough she's not the other guy
her focus groups assure her that it's so
it's in the bag, she need not even try
eight years elapsed in which the big banks grew
and we're still on the hook if they should fail
but her constituents are the rich Few
for whom a "penthouse" doesn't mean a jail
until November, anxieties mount
'though she nipped Sanders, riding his dark horse
as California readjusts the count
unbendingly, she grimly stays the course
content the voters have no place to turn
she gives no hint she understands the Bern