[New-Poetry] Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Auden is Acid, and Y'all Ca...

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 3/5/2007 10:45:40 AM Central Standard Time, 
jforjames at aol.com writes: 
> 
> Particularly during the Cold War, I would say that most readers, if they 
> weren't trying 
> to be obtuse about it, would hear an implied extension to the phrase, as 
> in...
>  "We must love one another or die (more quickly; in greater numbers; 
> hideously; etc.)"
>   
>  Finnegan
> 
Search "daisy" on wikipedia.org and scroll down to the Politics section.  
Johnson's speechwriter (probably Moyers) altered the line from Auden.   
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