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I'm in love with Neil Gaiman.
How odd, one thinks. If her husband didn't write that rubbish, who did leave her a poem about how jealous he was that she was kissed by that charming French guy? And why would she read it out to people voluntarily, without even being at gunpoint?
The only logical explanation is that the folksy dire toe-curlingly bad poetry was concocted, not by some secret lover, but by Laura herself, or by people behind the scenes at the Bush Administration, in to divert attention from George Bush's actual poetry.
Think about it.
Why would the First Lady read out bad poetry, and claim it was by George Bush? Obviously because his actual poetry would bring down the administration.
Imagine the real presidential poems: complex sestinas and triolets, rondels and villanelles, crammed with allusion and metaphor, litotes and auxesis, and every kind of metre from iambic and trochaic to anapestic and spondaic and that other one I can't remember the name of. Poems in the manner of Byron, of Shelley, of Ezra Pound. Sonnet sequences of such brilliance that they cannot be read without tears unbidden pricking the eyes of the person reading. Sensitive, subtle, gentle, fierce poetry. Good poetry. Great poetry.
If he's writing poetry like that, it would need a full-scale cover-up.
America would never trust someone who wrote real poems in a position of power. America understands how dangerous poets are, and would not allow one in the White House in any position of responsibility.
He actually made GEORGE BUSH a tragic figure. Clearly this man deserves the Nobel prize for literature. I was going to say we should make him president if they actually pass that thing that lets those who weren't born in America be elected, but he's quite a good poet so obviously that wouldn't work. Plus then he wouldn't have time to write novels or update his blog and I would be sad.
Mer
How odd, one thinks. If her husband didn't write that rubbish, who did leave her a poem about how jealous he was that she was kissed by that charming French guy? And why would she read it out to people voluntarily, without even being at gunpoint?
The only logical explanation is that the folksy dire toe-curlingly bad poetry was concocted, not by some secret lover, but by Laura herself, or by people behind the scenes at the Bush Administration, in to divert attention from George Bush's actual poetry.
Think about it.
Why would the First Lady read out bad poetry, and claim it was by George Bush? Obviously because his actual poetry would bring down the administration.
Imagine the real presidential poems: complex sestinas and triolets, rondels and villanelles, crammed with allusion and metaphor, litotes and auxesis, and every kind of metre from iambic and trochaic to anapestic and spondaic and that other one I can't remember the name of. Poems in the manner of Byron, of Shelley, of Ezra Pound. Sonnet sequences of such brilliance that they cannot be read without tears unbidden pricking the eyes of the person reading. Sensitive, subtle, gentle, fierce poetry. Good poetry. Great poetry.
If he's writing poetry like that, it would need a full-scale cover-up.
America would never trust someone who wrote real poems in a position of power. America understands how dangerous poets are, and would not allow one in the White House in any position of responsibility.
He actually made GEORGE BUSH a tragic figure. Clearly this man deserves the Nobel prize for literature. I was going to say we should make him president if they actually pass that thing that lets those who weren't born in America be elected, but he's quite a good poet so obviously that wouldn't work. Plus then he wouldn't have time to write novels or update his blog and I would be sad.
Mer