Gipper Obit

I guess we all handle national moments in different ways. The day after Ronald Reagan's death, I googled these terms--Ronald Reagan Poetry Blog--looking for poems about the man. Not much there, but this chat that J-Walk had with the A.L.I.C.E. was interesting. The bot knew Reagan was a president but didn't know his wife's name is Nancy.

I was hoping to find, however, poems about Reagan. I wrote one about him when he first became president. I had read he liked jelly beans so much he kept a jar of them on his desk in the Oval Office. I didn't care much about Reagan's politics, but I did share his taste for jelly beans, so in a jelly belly way I felt connected to him. Thus I wrote "The Lover of Jelly Beans," sealed the poem in an envelope, addressed it to President Ronald Reagan, The White House, USA, and dropped it in the mailbox. I suppose something is done with the mail addressed to the President of the United States. I never got a reply, but maybe the poem is in an archive somewhere. Maybe the poem is in my FBI file, if I have one.

I don't recall much about the poem. A copy isn't at hand. Don't even know if there's a copy in a basement box.