The President's breakfast table

On this table lies,
alongside the warm coffee and bread,
twenty 'rarest or rare' items.
He will not watch TV when he is having breakfast,
But read newspapers he will.
A story on the rope, an interview with the hangman,
he will see.
And he will read,
what the woman who lost her husband in the shootout
or the old parents of the condemned are thinking.
Kill him for the sake of the nation.
Is the rope made of nylon? It should hurt him.
The President is transported to an era,
When executions were public.
Blood-thirsty humans are erasing his understanding of
'Rarest or rare'.