Not quite poetry
From a young Soetoro
I bet Ayers wrote it
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/29/2010 6:02:57 AM PST by Scanian
Many thanks to my correspondent, "Mr. Southwest," for surfacing an early and revealing Obama poem that I had heretofore not seen.
The unnamed poem, which I will call "Forgotten," was unearthed for a lengthy March 2008 article in Vanity Fair by the magazine's national editor Todd Purdum. It reads as follows:
I saw an old, forgotten man
On an old, forgotten road.
Staggering and numb under the glare of the
Spotlight. His eyes, so dull and grey,
Slide from right to left, to right,
Looking for his life, misplaced in a
Shallow, muddy gutter long ago.
I am found, instead.
Seeking a hiding place, the night seals us together.
A transient spark lights his face, and in my honor,
He pulls out forgotten dignity from under his flaking coat,
And walks a straight line along the crooked world.
When Purdum mentioned the poem to Obama in 2008, he told Purdum he had no memory of it. (By contrast, I can still recite the poem that won a class contest when I was a freshman in high school.) After Purdum read the poem to Obama, he said, "That's not bad. I wrote that in high school?"
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Early 0bama Poem Shows Davis's Hand
"Seeking a hiding place, the night seals us together.
"A transient spark lights his face, and in my honor,
"He pulls out forgotten dignity from under his flaking coat,"
Jeepers. - Okay, apology in advance. This is gross: remember 0hbumma's other poem about their odor in each other's underpants?
[Thanks, mojitojoe. Your photo is perfect.]
Gee, I thought it shows Davis's "dignity from under his coat!"
That makes it a little different from what it's called nowadays!
No wonder, 0b0z0 is Soooooo…dignified!
Not quite poetry
From a young Soetoro
I bet Ayers wrote it
The poem is rather sick, especially when it coupled with the other ones. Wonder whether it was Frank or Gramps who Zero imagined was forgotten.
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