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WEPT; SMILED/S
By Bill Costley





WEPT; SMILED/S

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

Agnew wept; Nixon smiled.
Nixon wept; Kissinger smiled;
Kissinger wept; Kissinger 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
(23 JAN 06 7:40 PST, Santa Clara CA)


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