Verses from Today's Washington Post. ** Ivanka Trump cited de Tocqueville to condemn impeachment. The quote wasn’t his. ** Fred Cox, former Vikings kicker and Nerf football co-inventor, dies at 80. ** Don’t eat romaine lettuce from California’s Salinas Valley, CDC warns.

@KaylaEpstein

Anyone can quote things wrong,

from a book or from a song.

Even White House daughters err,

though they might be doctrinaire.

Tocqueville, being French, I bet

forgives her cuz she is brunette . . . 

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@DesBieler

All the world's a Nerf, they say,

and we upon its foam do play.

Whether football or a dart,

eventually it falls apart.

And when a man has lost his Nerf,

they bury him beneath the turf . . . 

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@bylenasun

My mother said that I should eat

raw veggies to stay strong and fleet.

But now I turn around to find

raw vegetables have been maligned.

They get infected with rough germs

or harbor parasitic worms.

On beer and pretzels I survive;

I'm drunk and fat -- but still alive!