Nixon died last night

Nixon died this week, 20 years ago on April 22, 1994.
Photographer Ginny Lee wrote this poem on April 28, 1994 about the man for a
class.

Nixon died last night 

Well,
I guess you were a pretty good piano player.

But
you hated me and didn’t even know my name.

Out
in the streets back then trying to get friends I didn’t know home from Vietnam.

Whining,
paranoid little man with a niggardly heart.

Hateful,
hateful, hateful.

Ginny Lee

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