[New-Poetry] Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Auden is Acid, and Y'all Can Go Screw

[Halvard Johnson]

Then he could have fixed that by simply changing "or" to "and."

Hal

"He's the kind of guy who can brighten
  a room by leaving it."
		--Milton Berle

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On Mar 5, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Skip Fox wrote:

> I heard he dropped the line (he was constantly revising) because he  
> found it untrue on the very simple level that we must die no matter  
> what. He said something to that effect if I remember correctly.
>
>
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> bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of TheOldMole
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> To: NewPo
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Auden is  
> Acid,and Y'all Can Go Screw
>
>
> Has anyone ever heard this before? >From Christopher Hitchens.
>
>
> Another celebrated Auden line — "We must love one another or die" —  
> was annexed without his permission and used in Lyndon Johnson's  
> notorious attack ad on Barry Goldwater in 1964, showing a little  
> girl counting petals as she mutates into a thermonuclear countdown.  
> The hideous scene closes with Auden's words. He was so furious at  
> this that he removed the poem from his canon. He was prone to  
> excise things that had been exploited or distorted
>
>
>
> Tad Richards
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