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The Two Bills (poem)

By John Crandell

A fact pattern, people:
    LBJ was not happy
of course he wouldn't
    truly believe, privately
his own (forced) Warren Commissioners
    why would he?
CIA's Bill Harvey had cussed out RFK
    actually screamed at him at Langely
during Cuban Missile Crisis
    thereby got himself sent to Eternal City
Lyndon was never immune
    to gaslighting the facts
later on ~ Pompeo wanted
    another year of secrecy (2017)
for plausible deniability
    from conception to eternity
Johnson once slamed his Fed Chairman
    right against the Oval Office wall
Bill Moyers had just resigned (1965)
    as press secretary
would deign never to speak with
    be interviewed by esteemed author Caro
what might Pastor Bill have known
    what we still don't know?
nope ~ Ol' Hang Dog wasn't happy
    about a larger discount rate
a resultant of his
    brand new Asian jungle warfare
Bobby had once humiliated
    the ex-senate majority leader
four months before Dallas
    one month before VEEP's telecon record went silent
Harvey as big Rome Station Chief
    somehow got himself
an alternative/secret identity (1963)
    so as to travel within continental U.S.
and just prior to Dallas, by chance
    he done got spotted
flying commercial
    from Italy to Texas

—John Crandell