Eisenhower photograph (1956), National Archives and Records Administration, from Wikimedia Commons. Armstrong photograph by William P. Gotlieb (1946), public domain, from Wikimedia Commons. Photo montage by William Shunn.
This is one of a series of poems exploring the life and work of jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong consumed and was fixated by the laxative Swiss Kriss for the last two decades of his life
An unpaid pitchman, I even sent Kriss
to Eisenhower. “Do it the Satchmo
way and you’ll feel 10 years old.”
Eisenhower wrote back: “As President
I’m not supposed to feel like I’m ten
years old.”
Copyright © 2019 by David Mills.
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