NIXON MISSING TAPE
NOW MISSING DOCS, NO ESCAPE
TRUMP FACING BIG SCRAPE
Richard Milhouse Nixon
his enemies he played tricks on
he sealed his own fate
when he authorized Watergate
June 17, 1972
night guard finds taped door
Watergate begins
Watershed and Watergate
From a watershed year to Watergate,
And all the people could hardly wait;
We did look;
Saw a crook;
What happened was us did Nixonate.
Jim Horn
Mubarak is a case in point. You leave
a man on top too long, he loses track
of what he is, beginning to believe
he's Pericles. Thus white shades into black.
Magruder, Coulson, Mitchell, Liddy, Dean -
they all lined up to help him tell the lies.
The end can never justify the means.
Who put the blinkers on such piercing eyes?
Up to this point, the office stood for Good,
all that could be hopeful in mankind.
But Nixon grinned, as only Nixon could -
a thousand placemen wilfully went blind.
The strangest thing about these law-destroyers,
these wreckers of the State? They were all lawyers.
Watergate Salad
Fluffy marshmallows in whipped cream and pistachios,
A Grandmother’s classic from generations.
By: Paige Posadziejewski
Inspired by walking on Watergate Bay in North Cornwall, England
Admission fees: Seniors free – Adults free – Family Pass free
My beautiful Atlantic muse
of deepest, turquoise blue,
roaring forth your issue
newly crowned with champagne hue
The sea’s explosive theatre
devoid of human hand,
such a beautiful creation
of faceted golden sand
Closed eyes and salty lips
quenched in the sun’s embrace,
no need for riches here
in Mother Nature’s grace
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