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Stevie Nicks hopes Vladimir Putin never sleeps again

Stevie Nicks hopes Vladimir Putin never sleeps again

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Iconic singer/songwriter Steve Nicks keeps a journal that she turns to in times of crisis.

The legendary voice of Fleetwood Mac recently posted a poem to Vladimir Putin and held nothing back as she expressed her anger at the man responsible for the atrocities happening in Ukraine.


Nicks began:

“Are you lonely, Mr. Putin? Is that why you sit at your long, long marble table, alone in the night and through the day and talk to ghosts? Because you really have no friends — everyone is afraid of you; afraid to even offer up good advice, because great emperors don’t listen to anyone but ghosts. Your ghosts must be shaking their heads concerning the killing of children and young people and destroying the houses of young families just for support. Your ghosts disapprove.”

The full text of the poem appears below.

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