The quips and statements made by him – this president of style, like
he’d not exploit Fritz Mondale’s youth. He said that with a smile.
He laughed, recalling his acquaintance with a man in stone.
He said he knew Tom Jefferson, but he must have been alone.
And when that bullet pierced his flesh, in agony he quipped:
“I should have ducked”, as he reflected on the shirt it ripped.
Definitions of recession and depression were given by this charmer.
He added that recovery would come when we got rid of the peanut farmer.
He prefaced all these comments with a word not hard to tell.
This word summoned all ears to hear. His remarks started with “well”.
A well is that which does contain pooled water in the deep.
Not shallow, it is a resource of life’s water to keep.
Mr. Reagan drew from life itself, God’s truth he’d plainly tell.
We knew good things were coming when we heard him start with “well”.