Damn You Barak Obama

Yeah!

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From Lehrer's News Hour :: In Palestine, Identity Is Regained Through Poetry

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The last line of the story is something to the effect that poetry saves us.

Well. Yeah.

:)

The News Hour says:

Poets in the Arab world have historically been important cultural figures, and this tradition continues among Palestinians. In the second of his reports on Middle East poetry, Jeffrey Brown discusses poetry's role in Arab society with three leading Palestinian poets.

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Simon Rich's "The Wisdom of Children"

Ze's blog turned me on to this New Yorker-published poem titled "The Wisdom of Children"
by Simon Rich.

An excerpt:

I. A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids’ Table

MOM: Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy.
DAD: O.K.
GRANDMOTHER: Did you see the politics? It made me angry.
DAD: Me, too. When it was over, I had sex.
UNCLE: I’m having sex right now.
DAD: We all are.

Thanks as always, Ze, for inspiration above and beyond the call of avocation.

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