[lit-ideas] Re: Inaugural Poetry
- From: "Veronica Caley" <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:44:58 -0500
<This poem makes me feel wonderful. And I need it.>
I didn't add, and thought I didn't need to, that I liked it so much because
it isn't true. And I am overwhelmed with reality of various sorts, almost
all bad. So it is sort of like a fairy tale. I also see movies for
children, frequently in cartoon form, for the same reason.
The most recent was "Bolt." Happy ending, of course. It's what I expected
and respect the artistry that goes into it.
To balance out the really serious stuff like, "The Reader."
Veronica Caley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donal McEvoy" <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 1:54 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Inaugural Poetry
--- On Thu, 29/1/09, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As I read it, I could almost picture an agitated speaker
with a
handkerchief wiping his sweating brow after each
"yes" and breathing
the deep-intake of a Southern Evangelical
"da-uuuuuuunh",
But are Southn. Evangelgls. much given to squirm-inducing political
correctness?:-
"As the parent takes his child to school
And the parent takes her lunch bucket to work"
Daddy is a house-husband. Mommy is a career woman. Subtle, it ain't. Maybe,
to further subvert stereotypes, she's taking her KFC to one of those iron
girders in the sky where she skips along like a nimble goat working the
shift with those brethren Amerindians with a head for heights. They aren't
working for some evil capitalist conglomerate or on a site paying mafia
kickbacks either.
In case anyone gets the wrong
idea, YES, I am
trashing, YES, the idea that, YES, a poet-laureate of an
individual
state is a necessity... YES!
Amen, brothers and sisters, amen!
Donal
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