There once was a nutcase named Don,
Whose ego went on and right on.
He renamed every state,
The lake and the strait,
And called Sunday ‘Don-day’ at dawn.
The Second-Term Gospel
A brief limerick on vanity gone wild
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Former diplomat and globetrotter, Dan Costinas is a versatile contemporary writer, translator, and editor. A true polyglot, he has authored and contributed to several dozen books spanning mainly fiction, essays, aphorisms, reviews and criticism, journalism, and poetry.
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