[New-Poetry] Poetry gets uppity and some folks don't like that...

[Roger Day]

"the the" is the band, it's on the single infected.

If you ain't guessed by now, it's a derogatory term, indicating a
subservient role to the US. According to google, the current "51st
state", or country whose leader has his tongue furthest up Bush's
arse, is Australia, although the UK has held the title in the past and
in all likelihood will do so in future.*hangs head in shame* on both
counts.

Roger

On 6/10/07, Chris Stroffolino <cstroffo at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I keep thinking of that song by a british "punkish" band from the 80s,
> "we're the 51st state of america"
>
> (though maybe mr. GROSSMAN meant canada, or the district of columbia
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> On Jun 9, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Linda Sue Grimes wrote:
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> Would someone please tell me the name of the 51st state?
>
> lsg
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> Subject: [New-Poetry] Poetry gets uppity and some folks don't like that...
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> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1630571,00.html
> Poems for the People
> Thursday, Jun. 07, 2007 By LEV GROSSMAN  Enlarge Photo
>
> Champion students representing all 51 states, stand on stage at the Poetry
> Out Loud Competition at George Washington University in D.C., May of 2007.
>
> In 1876 an American Civil War veteran named Eli Lilly founded a
> pharmaceutical company. He did pretty well for himself: you can thank Eli
> Lilly & Co. for, among other things, methadone, Cialis and Prozac. But
> Lilly's reclusive great-granddaughter Ruth is apparently more interested in
> poems than in Prozac.
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> Chances are, you don't read much poetry, at least not the new stuff. Don't
> feel bad, hardly anybody does. To hit the best-seller list for verse, a book
> has to sell only around 30 copies. Poetry is the spinach in America's media
> diet: good for you, occasionally baked into other, tastier dishes (like the
> cameo that W.H. Auden's Funeral Blues made in Four Weddings and a Funeral)
> but rarely consumed on its own. In the hierarchy of cultural pursuits it
> sits somewhere just below classical music and just above clogging.
>
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