A Christmas Poem

I haven't attempted poetry in at least 10 years, but I was feeling inspired.



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It is a day of violence,
of hunger, thirst and chaos.
This is the day that the Lord hath made.
Let us kill and be killed.
Let us erect mountains of shit
and burn them in a blazing sacrifice to Love

The warriors were keeping watch in the fields
and lo, the angels came to them and said
"unto you a beast is born,
and it shall be unto you an abundance of wrath and blood.
And you shall call his name Human"
And they were filled with joy.

And so it was as they had said.
The beast throbbed and writhed
and heaved its raw stinking body on to the hearth of America.

This is the day that the Lord hath made.
Let us commit violence.
Let us eat flesh
and drink blood
and be glad that there is love.

This is the day that the Lord hath made.
Let us poison the ground,
the air and the sky
so the beast will find it to be
a suitable habitat.

I saw the best minds of my generation
consumed by vanity and bloodthirsty greed.

I saw the Christmas tree erupt in maniacal laughter
at the irony of itself

I saw America make wild tortured convulsions
as Chaos was crowned King

Twas the night before Christmas
and the beast was stirring
and waiting
in furious, glorious,
spectacular madness.

As he went once more
to worship at the alter of Love,
Jesus wept.

Bush delivers.

From Charlie Gibson's interview with Dubya last week,

"GIBSON: What were you most unprepared for?

BUSH: Well, I think I was unprepared for war. In other words, I didn't campaign and say, "Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack." In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents -- one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen."

Mind-blowing. I mean, shouldn't war be one of those things that you should definitely be prepared for if you seek the Presidency, kinda like, oh I don't know, natural disasters? What the hell is this sorry-I-screwed-it-up-but-I-never-claimed-I-could-handle-it bullshit? I mean, war is something that happens in some form during almost all Presidencies, right?

Just unbelievable.

And what's up with this implication that the "unexpected" is a "modern" phenomenon? Or that the "unexpected" isn't an intrinsic facet of anything in the entire world? Bush's capacity for inane, vacuous assertions may forever remain unmatched.

One more, "BUSH: ...took place over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President."

Wow.

It's starting to look good for Al Franken

...by something like .001% of the vote in the recount. It's still far from over, but wow!