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April 30, 2004
A Pit Bull on the Pant Leg of Opportunity
I hadn't planned on contributing to the "Poem on Your Blog Day" to honor the end of National Poetry Month, in part because so many other bloggers had contributed so many wonderful poems:
- From The Salt-Box, Jason points to T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding."
- Liliputian Lilith offers two poems by Hungarian poet, Agnes Nemes-Nagy.
- Clancy links to "Parsley" by Rita Dove (who gave a wonderful reading at Georgia Tech last year) and "Spelling" by Margaret Atwood.
- George promotes the work of one of his colleagues, Michelle Boisseau.
- Weez presents a few poems by Chan McKenzie
- And, finally, from scribblingwoman we get "The Wife's Lament."
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It’s a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked
“Is our children learning?”
“Will the highways of the Internet become more few?”
“Do you have Blacks in Brazil?”
“Why don’t the French have a word for ‘entrepreneur’?”
How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pant leg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope,
where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the toll booth!
Make the economy gooder!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!
Posted by chuck at April 30, 2004 5:06 PM
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Comments
Oh, you made me spit my drink of water on the keyboard!
Posted by: mjones at April 30, 2004 5:20 PM
Glad you enjoyed the poem. Hope your keyboard isn't ruined!
Posted by: chuck at May 3, 2004 2:04 AM
This is great. Im in school. I needed some entertainment and something to let me know it is not in vain.
Posted by: samantha at June 3, 2004 11:45 AM