Regarding your behaviour, Sir, it's poor;
and not at all like patriots of yore.
Good manners don't cost much, I think you know;
maybe you just forgot, for it's below
a leader to speak ill of other folk.
No calling women "dogs", that's not a joke;
no one, it seems, but you, thinks that's the way
enlightened men communicate today.
Respect is needed; try being a gent,
since no land needs an uncouth President.
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Author Notes
Today's word: rag-manners (n.) bad manners.
P.S. Still struggling to find time to keep up with things on FS. Hopefully, it will pass. Thanks for your patience.
My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.
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