[New-Poetry] Poetry of Sarah Palin

[Linda Sue Grimes]

FDR on TV, 1929

When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt 
got on the television and didn't just talk 
about the, you know, the princes of greed...

No Clean Coal
No coal plants here in America
Build them, if they're going to build them, 
over there. Make them clean.
We're not supporting clean coal.

Barack America!
A man I'm proud to call my friend.  
A man who will be the next 
President of the United States 
- Barack America!

He's Clean
I mean, you got the first mainstream
African-American who is articulate
and bright and clean 
and a nice-looking guy
I mean, that's a storybook, man.

Translation from the British

Original:  

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations
to be able to get to a University . 
was it because all our predecessors were thick, 
those people who could work eight hours underground 
and then come up to play football?"  - Neil Kinnock

Translation: 

I started thinking as I was coming over here, 
why is it that Joe Biden's the first in his family 
ever to go to University . is it because our 
fathers and mothers were not bright. 
who worked in the coal mines 
of Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up 
after 12 hours and play football?"

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: jforjames at aol.com 
  To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:38 PM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] Poetry of Sarah Palin


  http://www.slate.com/id/2201342/
  The Poetry of Sarah Palin
  Recent works by the Republican vice presidential candidate.
  By Hart Seely
  Posted Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008, at 1:25 PM ET 
  Sarah Palin

  It's been barely six weeks since the arctic-fresh voice of Alaskan poet Sarah Heath Palin burst upon the lower 48. In campaign interviews, the governor, mother, and maverick GOP vice presidential candidate has chosen to bypass the media filter and speak directly to fans through her intensely personal verses, spoken poems that drill into the vagaries of modern life as if they were oil deposits beneath a government-protected tundra. 


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