TRANSMITTAL
They talk about degrees of separation
With apologies to Kevin Bacon
I like to think in degrees of connection
This week
when I helped Madeline Albright
down from that one tricky step
it was also everyone at the UN
and anyone who was anyone
in politics and power for thirty years
President Ford was a nice man
with a football players hand
that had shaken more than a few
And when the Queen Mother in her 90s
was our guest in the Saskatchewan Hotel
I held her hand in both of mine, a little
longer than called for in the book of protocol
I wanted to make sure that Churchill got through