NaPM 10 April 2022

[dukealien]

He Gave Them a Sword


Richard Nixon, always the smartest man in
any room he ever would enter knew that
all the others always would hate him for it
and his solution

was to gather power so they would have to
suck up to him even while plotting to be
rid of him.  So each of his best-known speeches–
“cloth coat” and Checkers–

was about some slight he had suffered yet each
time he won and held supreme power in his
grasp he managed to have it stolen from him
not fighting for it.

For he, knowing no-one would ever love him
settled for the hatred of people whom he
knew were lying, crooked as they said he was
and let them rob him.