what we perceive
The Perceived
When Joe Biden the American president
walking up to the steps of his plane
fell stumbled and fell several times
possibly because his aged legs didn't
lift high enough on the ladder rungs
Unwittingly, this mishap might have had
had a bleak effect on the onlookers
and he was seen as an elderly man, not
in good physical form
Sometimes, what we see comes true
He has, after four years, shown the world
he is mentally up to his cargo.
What we perceive, say, a physical act
can be a forerunner of things to come
When Jimmy Carter was president
when participating in a local marathon
attacked by a wild hare and people
came to see him as a weak president
which he was, although he was a nice
person, little political savvy
He worked hard trying to free the
American hostages when the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard stormed the US
Embassy, alas they were not set free
before Ronald Reagan became president
so he, the blessed man, got the glory
We have the lamented Gerald Ford
who became president when Nixon left
and remembered for pardoning Nixon
which I think was the right thing to do
Otherwise, Gerald Ford, was seen as a fool
His wife became famous for the posh clinic
she ran helping alcoholics
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