‘He’s not Churchill’

Who knew?

But then the speaker isn’t Eisenhower

Isn’t Kennedy

Biden

Either of the Bushes

Isn’t Ford

Teddy Roosevelt

Isn’t Franklin D

Or Truman

Washington

Lincoln

Isn’t even Tricky Dicky

All these men had faults

Failings

A taste for war

Uncontained sexual appetites

A disregard for the law

One should have stuck to m...

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If you grovel to a bully,

You won’t become his friend.

He’ll keep on squeezing you for more;

Demands will never end.

If you grovel to a bully,

He will not be impressed;

He’ll pocket everything you give

And come back for the rest.

If you grovel to a bully,

He’ll think you can’t refuse,

So your inadequate response

Means you are bound to lose.

If you...

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From the land to the sea, 

There are stretches of olive trees growing from cinders 

And a watch of nightingales humming Persian poetry,

Drifting skyward, looking for the big man who would perhaps lend an ear.

Atop the clouds, there's an Epicurean paradox 

Instead of the big man. 

Head cradled in his hands, he witnesses pirates from plundered docks 

Ravage his gold-stricke...

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