WHAT THE PRESIDENT WILL SAY AND DO!!

(Station Hill Press of Barrytown, 1984)

All Men are Sisters (1979)

– Madeline Gins, What The President Will Say and Do!! (Station Hill Press 1984)

Woman is the host. Man, the guest (guestess?). But the host has been too amiable for too long. Look at what we have bred. We have acquiesced to such a degree that in our own homes we now speak their language instead of ours.

Men are by nature critical. Women, self-critical. This is the critical difference.

There simply could not have been a woman who would have said, “Left side,” “right side,” then stuck to it. For a woman, it is a question of at least seven sides, at least one for every hue. Such subtlety contributes to the subtle difference.

Table of Contents

Preface

Presidential Poems (before)

What the President will Say and Do!!

The Leader I

The Leader II

Top Secret {Code: after}

The Nature of Trouble (Petition of Presidential Relative)

The Nature of Trouble

Chronology

The Nature of Trouble: A Critique

Presidential Union and Intimacy

The Presidential Mood

The President’s Logic

All Men are Sisters

A Sisterly Thesaural Dictionary

How to Breathe

Brief Autobiography of a Non-Existent

How to Have and Not to Have a Nervous Breakdown

An Introduction to THE History of THE

The President Reacts