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Drinking Fizzies

But we know it isn't like that,
unfortunately. Because we know
that he will be somewhere else in
the White House, probably playing
hearts with Henry Kissinger,
ordering a new wardrobe from
Robert Hall's drinking Fizzies, and
soaking his dentures.

Richard Nixon moves
cautiously, close to the middle
down the open road. Referring to,
Walt Whitman, poet Louis Simpson
wrote that today the open road
leads to a used car lot. And when
we get there, guess who will be
waiting.