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2013 Poet Laureate nominees (if Bam wins? )
You Tube ^ | Jan 2009 | Elizabeth Alexander

Posted on 09/29/2012 12:25:00 PM PDT by tsomer

If 'bam get's reelected, will we host another extravaganza? Will we have another poet reciting verse.

In case you forgot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7eH7U3vCLQ

Well, this time, let's give somebody else a turn at the podium.

I nominate Snoop Dogg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaCodgL9cvk&feature=relmfu


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Chit/Chat; Poetry; Society
KEYWORDS: arts; culture; poetry; whitehouse
I'm open to suggestions.

Feel free to nominate your favorite poet for this gig.

1 posted on 09/29/2012 12:25:08 PM PDT by tsomer
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To: tsomer
Tupac Shakur!!

H's the only one who won't say anything completely stupid!

2 posted on 09/29/2012 12:28:54 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (ua)
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To: tsomer

If Bam wins, the poet laureate is likely to be Zawahiri. Or Ahmadinejad.


3 posted on 09/29/2012 12:41:20 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))
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To: ClearCase_guy

Tupak! Yeah. I didn’t consider him because he’s dead.

Of course that makes his work especially valuable. I’m waiting for Sothebys to auction his manuscripts. I’m assuming of course, that he could write them.

Since this is a special occasion maybe Obama will bring him back. If anybody could he could.


4 posted on 09/29/2012 12:41:48 PM PDT by tsomer
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To: tsomer
I nominate Sister Souljah
5 posted on 09/29/2012 4:29:24 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: Fiji Hill; tsomer

Poets Laureate
I do not appreciate
Their poetry sucks


6 posted on 10/12/2012 7:00:08 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (The Administration styles itself as 'Leading from Behind'. I call that 'Following'. -- Mitt Romney)
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To: NicknamedBob

Too bad Langston Hughes is no longer with us. If he were, he would undoubtedly be Obama’s first choice to be poet laureate.

PUT ONE MORE S IN THE USA
(Langston Hughes)

Oh, the bankers they all are planning
For another great big war.
To make them rich from the workers’ dead,
That’s all that war is for.
So if you don’t want to see bullets holding sway
Then come on, all you workers,
And join our fight today.

Put one more S in the U.S.A.
To make it Soviet.
One more S in the U.S.A.
Oh, we’ll live to see it yet.
When the land belongs to the farmers
And the factories to the working men,
The U.S.A. when we take control
Will be the U.S.S.A. then.
But we can’t join hands together
So long as whites are lynching black,
So black and white in one union fight
And get on the right track.
By Texas, or Georgia, or Alabama leg
Come together, fellow workers
Black and white can all be red:
Put one more S in U.S.A


7 posted on 10/12/2012 7:09:45 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Fiji Hill

That’s almost as good as 0bama’s poetry.


8 posted on 10/13/2012 6:15:48 AM PDT by NicknamedBob (The Administration styles itself as 'Leading from Behind'. I call that 'Following'. -- Mitt Romney)
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