I never thought I would see the senator cry though at his
age facing likelihood he might die in jail he had every right to
I thought he would go down like James Cagney defying
authority to the end and not that James Cagney movie where he turned coward for
the kids
It is not like he doesn't deserve it for all he's done for
all those years. he got off easy, someone whose legendary rise to power was
often done on the backs of his enemies and sometimes his friends
so there are very few left to shed tears over his demise
His story is full of irony especially when it comes to our
poet who shared a bit of a story, if not --as with those associated with him --
his bed it
is unlikely she
managed to trickle up as high in the food chain as to where he was, though if
taless are true, she reached to those just beneath him: virgin mayor and the
neighboring mayor -- before she got cast off the out of political Eden
but this may have
been a very lucky circumstance for her since the women the senator associated
with became corrupt too, especially the
woman he last made his wife, a foreign national so much blinded him, he
abandoned his usual caution
She was not the same woman he came to the school renaming
back in 2013, an affair during which I last saw her poet in the flesh
She -- the poet -- was already halfway out the door
The senator met his wife later, although this was also full
of irony, frequenting the same IHOP where the poet dined with the Virgin Mayor,
who she – the poet – claimed hit on her in 2012.
He, the senator, was ruthless
He once betrayed his mentor then bragged about bringing down
a corrupt mayo.
When another mayor and county executive conspired against
him, the senator arranged for the feds to put them both in jail and when the
Virgin mayor endorsed his GOP opponent the good senator conspired behind the
scenes to get him convicted, too.
Now that it is his turn, he cried and I almost felt sorry
for him, a sad story of power that enveloped him and so many others.
I keep thinking of
the time he took much more care with whom he trusted.
Once in a remote place in the peninsula City, he hugged me.
I later learned he was checking to see if I was wearing a wire
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