The White House Poem by Sheena Blackhall

43 Presidents lived here
With the ghost of Abraham Lincoln
And all the Presidents' men

President Richard Nixon
Installed a bowling alley

President Bill Clinton
Installed Monica Lewinsky

President Woodrow Wilson
Kept 83 sheep on the lawn

President John F. Kennedy
Kept his secrets

President Herbert Hoover
Housed two alligators

President Warren Harding
Hosted poker parties

President Reagan
Stored a jar of jellybeans

President Johnson
Called his genitals ‘Jumbo'

President Roosevelt's
Family walked on stilts

President Quincy
Skinny-dipped in the Potomac

President Carter
Saw a UFO

President Taft
Got stuck in the White House bath

In the President's House there are:

Panic buttons
Bullet proof windows
A nuclear bunker
35 bathrooms
412 doors
147 windows
28 fireplaces
8 staircases
3 lifts
A florist
A tennis court
A cinema
A putting green

Which makes me think
In a house that vast
You could easily get lost

You wouldn't feel safe
If you looked at the fate
Of Presidents to date

Abraham Lincoln. William McKinley
James A. Garfield. John F. Kennedy
Killed in office, every one

Attempted assassinations?
The shiver-list runs on:

William Taft. Andrew Jackson
Theodore Roosevelt. Richard Nixon
Herbert Hoover. Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt Ronald Reagan
Ford, Bush, Carter, Obama, Clinton

So what's this piece of real estate summed up?
The White House is the finest gaol in the world*
The place where every global problem's hurled.

*‘The White House is the finest prison in the world'.
Harry S Truman