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(Vanity) Rage, Rage Against The Dying (A Eulogy upon the 2016 Campaign)...with a nod to Dylan Thomas
Free Republic original content ^ | March 05, 2016 | grey_whiskers (adapted from Dylan Thomas)

Posted on 03/05/2016 7:00:43 AM PST by grey_whiskers

Do not go gentle into that GOP-e night,
Glenn Beck should rant and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the Right.

Though Trolls at their end know not left from right,
Because their words had sporked no weasel they
Do not go gentle into that GOP-e night.

Good Freepers, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their candidates might have danced with a Free Press,
Rage, rage against the dying of the Right.

Independents who caught and sang the Trump in flight,
And learned, so late, to cheer him on his way,
Do not go gentle into that GOP-e night.

Rubio men, campaign near death, who see with foaming sight
whose eyes could dance like Rahm Emmanuel and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the Right.

And you, Ted Cruz, there on the Quixotic height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that GOP-e night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the Right.


TOPICS: Government; Humor; Poetry; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; gope; trump; whiskersvanity
Cheers!
1 posted on 03/05/2016 7:00:43 AM PST by grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers; neverdem; SunkenCiv; Cindy; LucyT; decimon; freedumb2003; ...

A fluttering of the quill(s) *PING*.

2 posted on 03/05/2016 7:03:23 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
I once tried writing a villanelle. It is hard.
3 posted on 03/05/2016 7:28:33 AM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug
Thank you for adding that word to my vocabulary.

My poetic skills are limited to slightly non-scanning limericks...

4 posted on 03/05/2016 7:30:36 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Cucksters’ Last Stand.


5 posted on 03/05/2016 8:29:40 AM PST by Toliph
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To: Toliph

I am *so* stealing that one...!


6 posted on 03/05/2016 9:14:01 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers
  THE SECOND GREATNESS
  [with apologies to  William Butler Yeats]

    Turning and turning his positions in the widening gyre
    The barber cannot tame his falcon' hair;
    Jeb falls apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the polls,
    The GOP-e tide is turned, and everywhere
    The voices of Establishment are drowned;
    The Worst might face conviction, while the rest
    Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation's on his hat!
    Surely "the Second Greatness" says his hat.
    The Second Greatness! Hardly are those words out
    When yet another policy reversal
    Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
    A great wall (but with great revolving door)
    An "assault" weapons ban?
    An "honest broker" between the terrorists and Jews?
    Portends the deal of deals with Stretch and all her friends...

    The darkness drops again but now I know
    That nearly thirty years of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by Boehner and McConnell
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be born?

7 posted on 03/05/2016 11:04:50 AM PST by FredZarguna (And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
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To: FredZarguna
(Takes off hat, inclines head.)

I stand bested.

Your Obdt. servant.

But I'm still a Trump supporter over Cruz.

(I'm covered on that, btw. Minnesota went for Rubio...)

8 posted on 03/05/2016 11:09:45 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

All credit to the good people at TRS.


9 posted on 03/05/2016 11:29:07 AM PST by Toliph
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To: Toliph

What is TRS, please?


10 posted on 03/05/2016 11:30:29 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

therightstuff.biz.

Trigger warning: it’s an alt-right/race realist site; not for the faint of heart.


11 posted on 03/05/2016 11:40:46 AM PST by Toliph
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To: Toliph
This isn't Democrat Underground; I don't need a trigger warning.

I've read Fred Reed and Vox Day; is that site worse than them?

12 posted on 03/05/2016 11:44:01 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

“I’ve read Fred Reed and Vox Day; is that site worse than them?”

I’m afraid so. Vox Day might be thought of as a gateway drug to TRS.


13 posted on 03/05/2016 12:00:03 PM PST by Toliph
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To: grey_whiskers; null and void; Velveeta; Rushmore Rocks; Myrddin; sweetiepiezer; Art in Idaho; ...

14 posted on 03/05/2016 2:14:13 PM PST by LucyT
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To: grey_whiskers

Good one!


15 posted on 03/05/2016 3:08:24 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: FredZarguna

Well done!


16 posted on 03/05/2016 3:11:05 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: FredZarguna
You are now my favorite poet. My previous favorite was, ahem, Flavin.


17 posted on 03/20/2016 12:14:42 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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