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Saturday, April 22, 2006

WEPT; SMILED/S

by Bill Costley


Hitler wept; Stalin smiled.*
Stalin wept; Khruschev smiled.
Khruschev wept; Gorbachev smiles.

Agnew wept; Nixon smiled.
Nixon wept; Kissinger smiled;
Kissinger wept; Kissenger smiles.

Bill Clinton wept; Hill Clinton smiles.

Dubya wept; Cheney smiled.
Cheney wept; Cheney grimaces,
Dubya grimaces; Cheney smiles.

*The shortest novel of WW2.


Bill Costley serves on the Steering Committee of the San Francisco chapter of the National Writers Union. The first twelve books of his epic-in progress The Cheni@d appear here in The New Verse News. Book XIII and XIV begin Volume Two here.