LEWINSKY IMMORTALIZED IN POETRY

LEWINSKY IMMORTALIZED IN POETRY

ATLANTA (Wireless Flash) -- A woman in Atlanta, Georgia, has taken poetic license with Monica Lewinsky by writing a book of poems about the scandal. Poet Debbie Passmore says she wrote the book -- called "Tales Of Girliegate" (Protea Publishing) -- because she figures people want to read about the scandal from a "less righteous" viewpoint. One of the poems, titled "The Acquittal," features the lines: "A time for reconciliation and renewal/ Said Bill in his speech to the press/ What exactly did he mean by renewal? Perhaps a date with the girl in the blue dress." Although Passmore admits the scandal is dying down, she says the poems have historical importance because they document what the country was thinking about at the time of the scandal. She also thinks her presidential poems might help kids understand the scandal in the same way that the old poem "Lizzie Borden took an axe/ and gave her mother 40 whacks" has immortalized Borden.

CONTACT: Debbie Passmore, ****; Atlanta, GA; (404) 355-0738