The President ordains the bee to be
Immortal.

The line juxtaposes political authority (“The President”) with a tiny natural creature (“the bee”), suggesting the absurdity—and the allure—of power to confer permanence. “Ordains” evokes both executive decree and religious consecration, implying that immortality here is not a biological fact but a status bestowed by language, ceremony, or imagination. Read this way, the sentence becomes a compact satire of official rhetoric that pretends to legislate reality, while also pointing to poetry’s own capacity to “ordain” significance: the poet can make the bee immortal by naming it and fixing it in art. The stark brevity heightens the sense of proclamation.