July 26, 2005
Bad Logic Deserves Bad Poetry
by JeremyThanks to Pootergeek's Bad Poetry slam, inspired by this guy's work, I was able to offer the world a humble piece of verse in the comments there. The effort, though, used up today's portion of my blogging chi, so I'm cross-posting it here:
AND WHAT DID SADDAM DO
You claim to bring democracy and social justice
but before your aluminum war owls
swooped down on our nursery schools, our hospitals
of pregnancy, our sylvan fields of kite flying…
we had an election whose percent was one hundred, whilst you
had an election of very small turnout, turnout, turnout…
We had a consti(damn you)tution
you bastards of strumpet-mother crusade!
We had a socialist system sired by father Saddam
before you picked at his teeth with your steely quills
and plucked from his swirly beardhairs that which your
orifices of hegemonous vision contrived to see
as nitty and undesirable.
And are we, I really have to wonder,
our children, our mothers, our very souls…
little more than nits
for your too too unpigmented fingers to pick at?
For totally no reason your paint of doom
covered over our windows of peace.
And what did Saddam do, Saddam do, Saddam do…
That could have been so bad, so bad, so bad?
For what is peace to you
who eat your McDonalds, who launch your Spears of Brittany,
who must have your precious machine oils,
and then turn around and
— O foul murderous troglodytes —
bite off the heads of our serenity
and spit them
into the craven spitoons of Empire.
And, I ask the fiery wind,
What did Saddam do?
What did he do, did he do, did he do, do, do?
Very, um, nice.
What would you say to orifices of 'hegevenomous' vision?
Not that I mean to suggest you'd actually talk to one. (Even assuming you could.)
Posted by: Bernard ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.whoknew.us/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 27, 2005 08:30 PM
That is deep, brother. You too are a poet.
Posted by: Jeremy Brown at July 27, 2005 09:21 PM
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