[CE2949BB]

0bama didn't write it. I was mocking the poem he did write.

A_perfect_lady posted a link to what appears to the real one:

LOL... not quite, but not that far away. Here: http://www.obamapedia.org/page/Obama+Poems?t=anon

[Aliska]

I found them in the NYT I think, those two. Kinda weird, but young people write weird poetry. Seriously, not my taste, and where is there any hope or change in them? The themes are kind of on the dark side and scrambled, maybe influenced by the music of his era. I'll refrain from insinuating anything worse.

There's certainly nothing uplifting about them, stark realism and not optimistic realism at that.

The Poetry of Barack Obama, pub May 18, 2008 (written in 1981), NYT