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What Might Make a Person Want to Lead

Feb 9, 2021

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A political poem for Presidents Day on the motivations and dangers of pursuing political power.
© by Nicholas Gordon.
Video and Audio Music: Wandering Soul. By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube.

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1:00

I Know I Cannot Satisfy the Sun

Dec 26, 2020

2

1:00

There Is No Threnody for Utter Darkness

Jan 3, 2021

3

1:04

Be With Us in the Circle of Our Love

Jan 29, 2021

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1:05

President's Day? Presidents' Day? Or Presidents Day?

Feb 8, 2021

1:03

What Might Make a Person Want to Lead

Feb 9, 2021

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1:08

Praised Be Those Who Would Distribute Power

Feb 9, 2021

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1:07

This Will Not Work if You Don't Want to Try

Mar 27, 2021

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1:05

Sing of Ireland, That Salad Bowl

Mar 8, 2021

9

0:59

We've Been Dating Now More than a Year

Mar 28, 2021

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1:10

One Wishes Earth Were Not So Decimated

Apr 10, 2021

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1:04

Although Consumed by Fury, You Still Loved Us

Apr 24, 2021

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1:05

Little Do You Know How Much You Love Me

Apr 29, 2021

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1:06

I Pray for You and Wish I Could Do More

May 5, 2021

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1:05

On the Brink of Married Life, You Wait with Wonder

Jun 16, 2021

15

1:06

Last June My Parents Got Divorced

Aug 12, 2021

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1:00

Ed Was a Black and White Paint Quarter Horse

Sep 12, 2021

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1:03

May You Find This Christmas Inner Peace

Nov 23, 2021

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1:05

Valentines Are Lovers Who Will Stay

Jan 31, 2022

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1:15

Saints Are Rarely Saints, if You Know What I Mean

Feb 27, 2022

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1:01

You're the Person That I Most Admire

May 18, 2022

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1:16

I Have You in My Bones

May 22, 2022

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1:07

All I Ever Wanted Was to Love You

Aug 4, 2022

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1:10

Love Is the Spring from Which All Longing Flows

Jun 24, 2022

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1:15

Not a Day Goes By that I Don't Think of You

Aug 8, 2022

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1:10

Variations on a Theme by Eros

Feb 5, 2023