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Summer of Discontent Reprised

   Americans were shocked and stunned
     ‘Reason’ abandoned, injustice had won

   On Sept. 8, 1974, when President Ford exited the stage
     The Republican right was left in fistic rage

   While the Democrat left was aghast, How could Ford do this
     The scales of justice, now so sorely amiss  

   To pardon a President, guilty in every possible way
     of undermining the law and his opponent just didn’t play 

   It cost Ford the next election, ‘cos Richard Nixon he’d pardoned
     Voters’ adverse reaction over two years so hardened

   They elected an unknown, a neophyte named Carter
     next to whom the Ayatollah Khomeini looked smarter

   Yet the country moved on, hindsight thanked Ford
     ~ That Biden pardon Trump ~ start petitioning the Lord

Copyright © Gershon Wolf

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