Sunday, October 26, 2008

 
TR wanted to be

the bride at every wedding,
corpse at every funeral.*

Achieved his portion of
the latter @ 60, embolism,
after using, say, ten

lives or so & driving
a son to nervous collapse.

If there's a God, he
doesn't check résumés.


*Alice Longworth Roosevelt

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