Dead poets against the war #2 - e.e. cummings

[robinturner]

dubya was born in the land of the free;
his i's were ice, his tongue was fire
he tried to put food on his family;
and fought to make the pie much higher.

dubya is not a revengeful man;
they misunderestimated his toil
our children is learning (as best as her can)
to die in the desert defending his oil.

Comments

[arbiteroftruth.livejournal.com]

sigh.

i do believe a firm spanking is in order.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Promises, promises ....

You can't blame me for that one, since half of it was made up of actual Bush quotations. OK, the oil bit was mine.

[arbiteroftruth.livejournal.com]

dear, dear solri. there is always room for blame. but is there room for love? LOVE i shriek?

hey, it's lonely here on the extra mile.

[solri.livejournal.com]

What, you expect me to love George Bush or what? Even Jesus of Nazareth had his sticking points.

What's an extra mile?

[arbiteroftruth.livejournal.com]

yes, i expect you to love george bush. and to serve him tea with milk.

the mentally handicapped need our love and understanding. not our scorching loathing...aw'ite, hate-filled left wing boy?

come here and give momma a kiss. SMACK

oh, and:

[arbiteroftruth.livejournal.com]

an "extra mile" refers to going above and beyond the call of duty. "walk that extra mile," blah blah blah.

i.e., as in giving more than you normally would, see, because you have, like, a HEART and shit and want the world to be nice for our children and particularly people like me. so stop all the hatred. all the hatred and maliciousness.

anger makes things die.

Re: oh, and:

[solri.livejournal.com]

What, I'm full of hatred and malice because I'm opposed to war? While I'm in an e.e.cummings mood, here2s one he actually wrote:

i sing of Olaf glad and big
whose warmest heart recoiled at war:
a conscientious object-or

his wellbelovid colonel(trig
westpointer most succinctly bred)
took erring Olaf soon in hand;
but--though an host of overjoyed
noncoms(first knocking on the head
him)do through icy waters roll
that helplessness which others stroke
with brushes recently employed
anent this muddy toiletbowl,
while kindred intellects evoke
allegiance per blunt instruments--
Olaf(being to all intents
a corpse and wanting any rag
upon what God unto him gave)
responds,without getting annoyed
"I will not kiss your fucking flag"

straightway the silver bird looked grave
(departing hurriedly to shave)

but--though all kinds of officers
(a yearning nation's blueeyed pride)
their passive prey did kick and curse
until for wear their clarion
voices and boots were much the worse,
and egged the firstclassprivates on
his rectum wickedly to tease
by means of skilfully applied
bayonets roasted hot with heat--
Olaf(upon what were once knees)
does almost ceaselessly repeat
"there is some shit I will not eat"

our president,being of which
assertions duly notified
threw the yellowsonofabitch
into a dungeon,where he died

Christ(of His mercy infinite)
i pray to see;and Olaf,too

preponderatingly because
unless statistics lie he was
more brave than me:more blond than you.

[arbiteroftruth.livejournal.com]

no, you're not full of hatred...though sometimes anti-war personalities present as just as ferocious/ruthless as those that are pro-war...but again, not you in particular.

in any event, you're in a poetry sort of mood, eh?

[katminnaar.livejournal.com]

more
(par-
en-
the-
ses)
your
poem made
too
much
...sense
(to actually
resemble
e.
e.
cummings)

after
Bush,
America --
I,
might LEAVE.

;)

[solri.livejournal.com]

[chuckles] I was going for an early cummings style, before he got overpuncutated.

I read a nice story about cummings and punctuation. One of his books had been typeset, and he was shown the proof copy. To his horror, he found that a full stop had been typeset as a comma. The crisis was solved by a typesetter who crawled into the press and shaved the tail off the comma.

[katminnaar.livejournal.com]

e.e.: Oh, I see. :)

That story's really funny! *L*